Sociopathic Sedition

And these people—the politicals like this JM—are confrontational rather than supportive. They haven’t yet grasped the opportunities for remedial dialogue that are available to them as guests of the Centre. They’re adversarial. Too much testosterone, I think the ladies here will agree. What’s worse, they’re likely to offend other people by undermining sincerely held belief systems, sapping morale. This space is for dialogue, not for winning wars. Think of blogging as one large dinner party—a symposium, as the ancient Romans used to call it.

We can also note certain that JM displays certain characteristic symptoms such as the infantile demands for ‘freedom’. Such ideas over so-called truth and justice most commonly arise in personalities with a paranoid structure. Sociopaths who are more concerned with ‘rights’ for victims rather than the rights of ordinary people to be free from nuisance and from the fear of crime and youths. Liberty should work for the law-abiding citizens, not the criminals, or putting money into lawyers pockets.

Of course, not all these people are diseased—some are genuinely concerned about social problems, though even some of these liberal personality types have allowed their repressed aggression to emerge, resulting in the kind of loud-mouthed offensive behaviour you’ve seen on the TV screen with the recent demonstrations. But what many of these undoubtedly sincere but mistaken types don’t realise is that we’re all aiming for the same things, sharing the same values. We’re rejecting the greedy, selfish attachment to material goods that the great majority sadly still suffer from and trying to promote higher values of self-sacrifice and community, abandoning mere fleshly pleasures. Hence our common ground with faith groups among other things.