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I think the prevalence of psychopathy in society is much higher than suggested by the article. Unfortunately, ruthlessness and the "win at all costs" mentality has guided human history from the beginning. What makes modernity unique from other time periods is that psychopathy became socially conditioned and revered (starting in colonial times) and really got rolling through the rise of materialism after the Industrial Revolution. And what makes post 9/11 even more interesting is that we're now witnessing a tsunami of all the negative consequences of years of greed, environmental and social disregard, and violence stemming from the "win at all costs" and "me, me, me" way of thinking.
One famous psychopath and founder of the National Education Association (NEA), John D. Rockefeller, was instrumental in pushing for a public school system in America. He was quoted as saying: "I don't want thinkers, I want workers". In other words, he didn't want people to critically think about feelings, concern for others, or question the larger world around them. He just wanted people to be like robots and follow authority without question and work until they drop. Or like Nike says, "Just Do It!" Is it any wonder that education in America is so substandard with so much violence in the schools? Standardization in schools will never go away because its about teaching conformity, not critical thinking. In addition, young people are bombarded since infancy that the promise of happiness through consumption is the only thing to strive for in life. The only goal in life for most people today seems to be simply making more money in order to buy more stuff because it will "make me happy" if "I do it by any means necessary". This model of "success" is anything but that and is doomed to fail in a huge way. Speaking of Nike, they're another corporation that's famous for exploiting poor laborers in third world countries. If I was to carry a pair of Nike's to any public area and give them away for free but then tell the receiver that the person who made the shoes was an Indonesian village woman who was repeatedly raped at the factory by managers, I GUARANTEE, 99 out of 100 people would take the shoes and not give a damn about the poor Indonesian woman who got raped. Not only that, but they would probably brag to their friends about the free pair of Nike's they picked up. My point is that psychopathic behavior is as much or more about social conditioning than genetics. Unfortunately, its the genetically psychopathic people that are running the world and will keep doing so until everything crashes.