tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post3159139052187671274..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: The end of the First Republic: The epigon eraUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-6315023091136754002018-06-02T11:38:35.139-04:002018-06-02T11:38:35.139-04:00an endless narcissistic struggle by the powerful t...<i>an endless narcissistic struggle by the powerful to get more money, more power, and more press than the next person.</i><br /><br />In most cases, the ones doing it aren't narcissists, they're psychopaths. <br /><br />Psychopaths need a life-or-death level of stimulation because they appear (Dave Lykken's research in the '50s) to have a deficient adrenaline metabolism, and consequently have about the same meager emotional repertoire as a crocodile. <br /><br />And if they manage to get their hands on national power, they raise the stakes because their new office may let them use war as one of their weapons. Lacking in emotion, they are willing, as Diamond told us, to kill us all as long as they can "win" by being the last to die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com