LBJ was a PPP.
Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here
"It is truly terrifying being up against them. It is also isolating. It is also very difficult to describe. Once you know the type you can recognise it, even when others can't see it. They are highly dangerous people." (Category 2 participant)
Now for the stuff we've all been waiting for. Chapter 4 of Karen Mitchell's thesis summarizes the results of her study, listing each of the core attributes of the persistent predatory personality, with quotations from her various participants. But first, an important point: "the data indicate that all adults of DP are equally as exploitative, dangerous, manipulative, and self-focused."
In other words, it's not as if non-incarcerated predators are just "a little bit" psychopathic. No, they're the full deal. They just differ in other ways.
The data indicate those of DP who remain out of prison are more likely to be of higher intelligence and socioeconomic status, have better impulse control capability, and are more adept at creating compelling facades, leading double lives, the 'dark' side of which most people are unable and/or unwilling to see, even where there may be subtle or even obvious indicators. The data also indicate higher functioning people of DP engage more effectively in underhanded tactics that prevent exposure and accountability, are better at grooming or manipulating others to support them, and are more likely to harm using methods that are subtle, ongoing and leave no evidence, resulting in emotional and mental 'torture' which their targets/victims struggle to recount to others.So rather than being somehow "less" psychopathic, the successful ones are arguably just better psychopaths.
Mitchell's analysis yielded 20 core attributes. She argues that all 20 are common to all PPPs. They differ between individual PPPs only in their specific behavioral manifestations, which depend on "context, opportunity, personal circumstance, and personal preference." For instance, an incarcerated PPP may not be able to manifest vengeance to the degree that he would while out of prison. Additionally,
While the findings indicate that all people of DP break laws, regulations, and agreements, as well as social and moral codes, the data also show that if someone of DP is of higher socioeconomic status, they are less likely to manifest this attribute as they can pay or bribe other people to break laws and regulations on their behalf.As noted in my prior article, Mitchell also identified 25 common tactics, as well as a handful of "differentiators," i.e., unique and sometimes contradictory capabilities and values. Here Mitchell makes what I consider a revolutionary insight: "The data indicate researchers have developed new iterations of DP based on these differentiators rather than focussing on refining our understanding of shared attributes." In other words, many of our current conceptions of dark personalities are probably just descriptions of subsets of PPPs with a common differentiator (or set of differentiators). The researchers who come up with such models mistake a secondary feature for an essential attribute. For example, one researcher might say that psychopaths by definition have low impulse control, when in fact they can have either low or high impulse control while sharing the same common set of core attributes.
Before discussing the 20 attributes, Mitchell has a section describing the "dark core" of the PPP — their "profoundly unacceptable 'darkness.'" As she puts it, "all people of DP are deeply malevolent and dangerous," and those who remain out of prison are "able to impose harm equally as destructively in covert ways while adopting strategies to avoid exposure and incarceration." This dark core affects non-psychopaths in a characteristic way.
For reference:She quotes one of her Category 4i participants, who lists some of the typical responses of victims/targets of DPs: suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, depression and anxiety, self-harm behaviors (eating disorders, drug and alcohol dependence, cutting), immense overwhelm and despair, feeling as if they are going "crazy," feeling "trapped and stuck like there is no way out of 'this hell' except to die," losing the ability to work, struggles attending school, strained relationships. And crucially, "Victims often do not know who to turn to for validation and support. Victims do not feel believed and start to despair at the isolation of their experience." Mitchell expands on this observation:
- Category 1 = personality researchers
- Category 2 = behavioral researchers
- Category 3 = expert forensic practitioners
- Category 4i = non-forensic professional practitioners
- Category 4ii = non-forensic corporate practitioners
- Category 4iii = non-forensic community practitioners
The findings show that people who have not been targeted by or worked extensively with people of DP and/or their target victims find it hard to comprehend, believe, and accept the complex manoeuvring and dark motivation of people of DP.Lobaczewski refers to this blindness in a couple ways, first as a product of the "common psychological worldview." This might manifest as pollyannaish interpretations such as "Oh, he must have had such a bad childhood," or "He must really be hurting underneath all that aggression," "I just know that inside is a person who just wants to be loved," or even a dismissal that he has done anything wrong. Second, he calls this phenomenon the first criterion of ponerogenesis: evil spreads when people can't identify it for what it is.
The findings also indicate that the motivations of people of DP are so profoundly different from the rest of the population that it is challenging for those who have not been targeted, including many mental health professionals, to accept the depth of 'darkness' and attributes and behavioural manifestations that stem from this dark core ...
Our unfamiliarity with such malevolence, combined with their skill at avoiding transparency, can cause us to misinterpret their actions. For example, "many small acts that together occur as 'torture'" may seem to an outsider "may seem like one-off ...innocuous behaviours when recounted to others."
"People think that they are exotic and complex. Instead, they are simple and dangerous. ... Normal people don't get how these people toxify the world around them." (Category 4ii)A more basic response to psychopathic malevolence is simply fear. Mitchell devotes a section to this response. Out of the expert practitioners, 72% reported experiencing fear in the presence of a DP; 74% reported experiencing the same while not in their presence. In contrast, only 40% of the researchers experienced such fear in a DP's presence; and only 20% when not in their presence. "At least one researcher in the study reported they had never, to their knowledge, been in the physical presence of someone of DP."
"I guess it highlights how the face of evil is so benign." (Category 4iii)
Key elements evident in the quotations include the difficulty for those who have not been targeted by someone of DP to understand and accept the extreme nature of the harm they cause when it is not physical; misconceptions about the true nature of people of DP; a reluctance to accept that someone they know may be so malevolently motivated; and that most people miss the signs that the targets/victims recognise that indicate people of DP. ... many people do not want to believe the motivations of those of DP because it is just too awful to dwell on. ... Several participants discussed the difficulty for targets/victims to be believed, the nature of harm was so bizarrely inhumane.
Specific fears ranged from concerns of the DP ruining their career, slandering them, physically assaulting them, destroying their property, sabotaging their relationships, ruining them financially, etc. As one of the 4iii participants put it: "anything is possible as a form of revenge." Another described it like this:
"I think the sense of superiority and quiet menace has given rise to this fear. The amusement in their eyes. You can almost hear the sinister thoughts through the silence. It creates a sense of foreboding that this person will store up revenge to be exacted at a later date." (Category 4iii)By far the most frequently mentioned theme in the Delphi survey and follow-ups was "dangerous and harmful" (1,170 mentions). As Mitchell points out, however, this is not an attribute; it's an outcome. The second most popular theme, and the highest-rated attribute, was "driven by control, power, dominance" (654 mentions). These were also the two highest-rated themes when participants were asked which attribute drives most DP behaviors. So if we wanted to capture the DP in the smallest possible nutshell, we might say they are dangerous and harmful people driven by control, power, dominance.
The model that emerged from the thematic analysis is the persistent predatory personality. Mitchell justifies the name like this. "Persistent," because DPs cannot be "cured"; their sense of superiority precludes them from believing there is even anything wrong with them. "Predatory," because, like predatory animals, they are "very different to those of most other human beings"; "they seek out the vulnerable, weaken them, isolate them, and use their pain or discomfort for entertainment, often harming or destroying them, while staying hidden and blending into the environment when they can." And "personality," because the model describes a discernible cluster of attributes.
These 20 attributes break down into four conceptual groupings. Here's what they look like:
The most commonly cited attribute in the study, Mitchell defines this as "an intense, all-pervasive drive for people of DP to dominate their world and the people in it using tactics ranging from the more subtle and covert to the transparent and evident." Some relevant excerpts from the interviews:
"A constant desire or perhaps need to be in control of any situation to enable an outcome beneficial at its core to that individual at the expense of all else." (Category 4i)Several of the participants linked this feature with sadism (a separate attribute), saying, for example, that the DP "gains a sense of power from the pain inflicted."
"I think why they enjoy manipulation so much is it gives them that sense of power, because they can control that other person." (Category 3)
"They keep themselves ingrained in their victim's life through extremely complex manoeuvring of other people, of circumstances, of facts such that the other person is eventually 'destroyed' professionally, reputationally, socially, and/or financially. It is a web of control and destruction which often involves many characters and situations. It can extend for years." (Category 4i)
"DP engage in an extensive array of strategies to ensure they control their environment including sacking people; creating what I would call 'big lies' to undermine people who get in their way or who may expose them or who they don't like or who they just decide to pick on; cultivating a network of supporters who will stick up for them regardless and who have a particularly positive view of the DP from the way the DP has groomed them or is getting something out of supporting the DP; by withholding information." (Category 4ii)
Things get ugly when their control is challenged. "Loss of control for people of DP is profoundly unpalatable." The DP establishes a set of rules for others. Noncompliance is punished; compliance rewarded.
"You learn that it is dangerous, either emotionally or physically, to 'upset' them and will always be walking on eggshells." (Category 4iii)Attribute 2: Self-View of Superior and Special, Entitled
Mitchell defines this attribute as follows: "a deeply held inner belief that they are better than other human beings and have the right to behave in any ways that please them, regardless of who it might harm or disadvantage." As Lobaczewski puts it, they view us as from a distance, as "not quite conspecific," i.e. like an inferior species.
"They have a cold-blooded sense of entitlement by which the world is a chess board, and all the participants are but parts to be moved around and utilised by the DP with no sense of the impact on them. They exist as objects and have little or no value in themselves." (Category 4i)Conning others successfully confirms this sense of superiority in their minds. Other literature references "duping delight," and it's not uncommon to find statements from incarcerated PPPs like, "Well, if he was dumb enough to fall for it, he deserved it." PPPs also lack any sense of normal reciprocity or obligation.
"The perpetrator shows clear enjoyment of causing harm to multiple others yet poses as a heroic 'Jedi knight' type and justifies his actions in the guise of 'fighting evil'. His entire public personality is a construct, and he utilises aliases to do harm and hide his wrongdoing." (Category 4i)
Attribute 3: A Pathological, Explosive Inner Response to Being Compromised or Challenged
Psychopaths are often described as cold-blooded and emotionless. However, PPPs display "hot anger" in three situations: "where their view of themselves as superior is challenged, where they are thwarted in achieving a goal, and where they are 'exposed' or at threat of being exposed." Participants describe this anger as "off-the scale" and "profoundly upsetting" (Category 3).
Attribute 4: Vengeful
One manifestation of this takes the form of "a sudden, ferocious outburst accompanied by physical behaviours, possibly physical violence, and/or possible destruction of property."
In many cases, physical use of the body is engaged, not to physically harm but to intimidate and cause fear. The findings indicate this might include standing over someone, stepping into the target/victim's body space, moving their face closer to the target/victim's face, or gesturing with a finger at the person's chest. [See the image of Johnson above.]The reference to the eyes is fascinating and deserves more research:
"They stand over you. Make their body imposing. The anger is palpable, they often bring their face close to you. Point their finger at you in a stabbing motion. There is sudden silence like in the eye of a tornado and their eyes turn black and they speak slowly and forcefully, and it is extremely intimidating." (Category 4ii)
There is substantial discussion in the data about the deadness or coldness of the eyes and how the 'eyes turn black' at the point of pathological anger. This was an interesting issue to emerge from the data: the nature of the eyes when pathological anger is present. This issue is not referenced in the academic literature; however, it is referenced in the popular press and was discussed extensively in this study.PPPs with greater impulse control are better able to restrain this response. Their vengeance may come years later and may be effected covertly. Participants describe an additional response to situations that induce their anger: intense calmness, "often accompanied by subtle body language and mannerisms that cause 'terror.'"
"They become hyper-focussed and cold. They do not express a lot of overt rage." (Category 3)Nonphysical forms of harm were mentioned more than twice as often (765) as physical ones (331). "The data indicate that one reason the pathological, explosive inner response is so frightening is that it seems to be universally followed by some kind of punishment or revenge." This is perhaps why so many of the expert practitioners have felt fear both in and out of the presence of a DP. They are "programmed" to exact vengeance, and one way or another, they will attempt to get it. Which leads us to the fourth attribute:
"A smirk and smile that said, 'I will get what I want from you.' That can generate fear as much as an exhibition of rage." (Category 3)
One of the most powerful themes emerging from the data in relation to vengeance is the certainty that a person will be harmed if they displease someone of DP and the terrifying body language and signals that communicate this to the target/victim, which the data indicate others are unlikely to understand.Attribute 5: Uncompromising
"When someone does something they do not like or someone gets an advantage over them, they come on hard with public humiliation, sacking, taking legal action against the victim/s, slamming the victim publicly in some way, creating rumours about the victim." (Category 4ii)
"He had a filing cabinet in his head and then at a time when he was not feeling on top or in control, he would literally take someone out of the filing cabinet, and he would wreak revenge on that person." (Category 3)
"They continue to exact revenge on the victim in covert ways long after that victim has been psychologically/emotionally/financially/socially broken." (Category 2)
"In coercive control, perpetrators can give subtle signals to their victims that they are angry and are going to punish them. It is often a movement of the head, a look in the eyes or something similarly subtle which they can give in front of others without others noticing, but the victim notices and is terrified." (Category 2)
Lobaczewski several times references the psychopath's "hyperactive" or persistent nature, as well as their "pathological egotism" (i.e. they're never wrong and forcefully impose their views on others). Mitchell defines this attribute as "an unwillingness to make concessions or to negotiate in a manner that involves mutual consideration for the interests of all parties."1
When they make a show of negotiating, "self-interest is always at the core of their decision-making, and any concessions or 'goodness' have an underlying motive."
"Compromises are always strategic and might include faking good and demonising the other person or it might be exceptionally litigious." (Category 4ii)This is what we're up against.
"When you are provided with new information, you revise. They do not. You can engage in a long dialogue about all the reasons why they should compromise but they have an unwillingness which is steadfast." (Category 4i)
It was explained by several participants that this attribute is often hidden by a 'façade' adopted by a person of DP that may be one of, for example, shyness, gentleness, humbleness, or 'goofiness' ... The findings show that regardless of the façade, the person of DP has a relentless willingness to maintain pursuit of their goal, way beyond when people not of DP would give up, including those who are exceptionally determined. A way of describing this phenomenon created by the thesis author and based on the data is 'unrelenting attention to personal purpose.'
Next up: more PPP attributes.
Notes:
1. Sounds like American foreign policy!
Reader Comments
The next psychopath was an employee. They had an ability I had not encountered before. They could broadcast an instinctive negative energy that affected anyone they dealt with. They made business customers literally cry. They ended their employment by threatening the manager with death.
Regarding the employee comment above, could it be that the instinctive energy that the psychopath emits creates a physical fear response in the target.
Quote: "Predatory," because, like predatory animals, they are "very different to those of most other human beings"
Is there an unseen energy component of the PPP targeting?
What does it mean? The DP energy is being projected through the field of consciousness?
It happens in deer hunting. You shoot and miss. The deer runs away but then returns later or the next day.
Here is a Brave search, AI response:
" Fear can impair cognitive function by interrupting brain processes that regulate emotions, read non-verbal cues, and reflect before acting. When the amygdala senses fear, the cerebral cortex, which controls reasoning and judgment, becomes impaired. This can make it difficult to think clearly and make good decisions. (One can see how fear is used by psychopaths to control others.)
Fear can also lead to impulsive reactions and intense emotions. For example, chronic and intense fear can make children lose the ability to differentiate between threat and safety. This can impair their ability to interact with others and learn because they might perceive threats in familiar social situations."
As the Dune protagonist states: "Fear is the mind killer." Memory did not come up in that search.
How is that for a Sunday Morning mask -lift? Proof is in the pudding ignorant opinionated pretentious intellectual; coward. Get a LIFE!!
What we focus on is what we stand for aka what we align with and who we are. Easy!
To fix this one should figure out what is triggering their sense of disappointment, lack of confidence, or sense of hopelessness.
Why now?
It is interesting that there is a ramping up in censorship everywhere, like the RT takedown and the attack on some alternate news journalists.
My sense is that the globalist psychopaths are trying to control the news cycle in preparation for some events. We will see.
Clean mind, strong heart, straight-spined.
Mask-off. Coward.
I have even more interesting conclusions. They are activated and externally!This is not some program, but a kind of impulse suggesting a transition to a different mode of action.
Hence, they have phases of sleep and activity.
I have noticed this by following the actions of psychopaths around the world and having such individuals available in my own environment.
I notice great time synchronisation in the changes of mode. It is best to look at Israel. This results from the fact that when these topics were still being described more widely, it was possible to read that rabbis subjected to DNA tests showed a double X chromosome... exactly the same description resulted from the studies of psychopaths.
Furthermore, I do not agree with the thesis that they are always aware of their actions during activity. They know what they did, but it is so vague to them that they do not truly understand the basis of any accusations against them.
I believe that the "activity" impulse somehow cuts off their natural reaction profile.
As for fear, I'll tell you one thing (taking into account my experiences). They actually resonate on waves that generate fear in people, but it's up to you whether you'll be afraid or not.
Living in denial is not choosing to not live in fear.
Interesting, "They actually resonate on waves that generate fear in people..."
First they said double Y chromosome.
(SOORY I KNOW< ITS MY STAKE IN FIRST COMMENT, NOT X...Y)
After years they changed the version to "fragile X chromosome" which was supposed to mean that the Y chromosome is really a broken X (without one leg)... they probably wanted to show that it is acquired, not innate.
"In my view, they know exactly what they are doing"
In most cases. However, Psychopaths used to be divided into primary and secondary.
Primary are those described here, and secondary are those who grew up in a psychopathic family, etc. In short, they were subjected to the influence of a psychopath from childhood and over time took on their traits... but not all of them.
Secondary psychopaths lack, for example, clarity of action, they have dilemmas, they know that what they are doing is wrong, but they do it anyway. I once knew a man who was a psychopath, but he also had another problem, he had a pretty bad memory and would simply forget something he said a month ago. I learned a lot from this man!
And here is my most important conclusion.
I would argue that psychopaths are a great gift to ordinary people.
I believe this because psychopaths have no power. They are simply insightful and seek out weaknesses in other people. They get in through those weaknesses and wreak havoc.
However, if it weren't for psychopaths, such people could live their entire lives and never discover their weaknesses... or even know about them!!
Isn't that a gift?
Another example... what can they take from you? You could say, everything, wife, children, money, job, position, good name, car etc.
But these are all small, material things, if you really desire such trifles in life then .... you need psychopath treatment! :-)
Isn't that a gift?
They do not attack people who are "crystallized". They attack weaker, scattered people, those who "want something", something they lack.
A properly constructed person is untouchable for them.
This is a fact that can be proven. If you want to feel the way you feel around a psychopath, take a transformer or a strong battery and short circuit the circuit by holding both cables in your hands. You will feel the flow of energy, at first it will tickle, a stronger one will hurt, and then fear will appear when the voltage is at the right level.
They do the same thing, they generate a flow of energy at a specific frequency that is indigestible to other people.
You can compare it, let's say, to a microprocessor that works fine on a 5V power supply, but at 8V it starts to go crazy, it goes out when you give it 12V.
Because it will be a frequency that is in conflict with the frequency of your body's work...your HEART!
Something like a very delicate cardiac arrhythmia occurs. The heart speeds up, then slows down again, tries to adjust to a frequency it cannot adjust to.
Of course, a momentary action, as in an experiment, will do you no harm. But an organism constantly subjected to such experiences eventually breaks.
Imagine that this sand is your body, it changes in the same way when external frequencies change. And notice the uniqueness of the resonance, it always forms geometric shapes....ALWAYS!
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...and you know everything you need to know about psychopathy.
That's all I have to share from my many years of experience.
Regarding gift. I think it depends on the level of consciousness of the person being subjected to a psychopath. If all it does is put them in a state of fear or they end up in satanic ritual abuse, I don't think it is a gift. For me, it showed that there are people who attack and abuse other people with the intent to harm.
Of course, but it's such a general statement that it doesn't apply only to psychopaths:-)
Either we get pro-active grow our own psycho self up and look after ourselves or continue to blame our self-culling on the outside psycho-world🤡💩🙄💩🤡
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
[1] Judge not, that ye be not judged. [2] For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. [3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
JAMES 4-11
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law.
ROMAN 14 10-13
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’” 12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
EPHESIANS 4-29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Jesus counsels us to "be wise as serpents but harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16).
We likely lean toward one or the other. Some have the "wise as serpents" part down but lack a dove's gentleness and harmlessness. Others are dovelike, but they turn a blind eye to the fact that evil is real and end up ensnared.
Ending quote: " Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad . I fear that unless institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity of the situation it will be too late. Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few. "