(12-26-2019, 01:31 AM)Amaterasu Solar Wrote: Psychopaths (primary) are not "deranged." They are genetically incapable of feeling caring, compassion, love, or empathy for Others... Secondary psychopaths (Those who learn to shut off those Human expressions) will emerge in a society run by primary psychopaths.
I would argue that your description of Primary Psyopaths IS a "derangement" - a genetic malfunction.
I fall squarely into your "Secondary Psychopath" category. I learned long ago to turn off all emotional response to external stimuli because they cause you to hesitate, they get in the way of reaction. In some people, they entirely immobilize them, "freeze them up". They are not conducive to survival in a fast paced world of thought vs. emotion. They will make one "zig" when he or she ought to be "zagging". It is those same emotional responses that Primary Psychopaths use to prey on the populace by exciting emotional responses when logical thought is required.
I have no use for a "hive" - I just want to be left alone, and the hive won't do that. Without hive interference, I wold get along just fine. I can feed myself and take care of myself fine without them... and that just makes them all kinds of irrational when I mention that.
I do agree about the money, however. Money, in all it's forms whether paper, coin, bitcoin, precious metals like gold or silver, jewels, etc -ALL of it - has no intrinsic value. It only has the value that OTHER people put on it, and it makes no sense to me to allow other folks to lead one around by the nose like that. That's why I am not rich today. I could have been, but I'm not, because I do not put the same value on money that other folks do. It makes bosses crazy when I do have a job, because they cannot motivate me by promising more of a thing that I do not value to begin with.
Money only buys one "stuff", and none of us can take any of it with us - money or "stuff" - when we leave this existence. What good is it? Everything is transitory, fleeting, smoke in a windstorm.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’