Mar 17 2008
Googling For Sociopaths
Dictionary.com tells me that a sociopath is a person who does not know the difference between right or wrong. If this definition is correct; I have met quite a few sociopaths in my life. Some of them were managers, artists and academics. Highly intelligent, and often very successful people who were able to get anything they wanted from life, because they manipulated people with a complete lack of empathy for the suffering they caused. I even lived with one under the same roof for quite some time and managed to survive that experience without (physical) damage.
Those “upmarket sociopaths” as I would call them usually disappeared from my life after they were exposed in one way or another. An intelligent sociopath likes to go unnoticed; they are born winners and concealing their true identity is their strongest weapon. So I am not too scared of the intelligent sociopath; I am more scared of the sociopaths who shoot an old woman’s through the head with a double barrel shotgun, just because she happens to have 200 Euros stashed away in a cookie jar.
My worst fear however is the sociopath who has a cause that is larger than life. Let’s call them sociopaths with a mission. Some of them rule the world. Others terrorize small regions of countries, but they are always there and one cannot live one day in this life without being confronted with the nasty results of their actions.
I have no real clue why I suddenly started Googling for sociopaths. Was it boredom? I don’t know, but if it was; that mood slowly switched to anger when I found the two sites linked below;
Charles Manson’s right hand Tex Watson who was the main killer in the Tate/LaBiancia murders, now has a site called “Abounding Love Ministries”. Needless to say he is now a devout Christian.
http://www.aboundinglove.org/sensational/wydfm/wydfm-001.php
As a young man I was fascinated and horrified at the same time by the Charles Manson family, but I had never seen any pictures of the bloodbath in the Tate/Polanski house, until I visited the link below. I have included the link as a reminder what can happen if sociopaths with a mission are at work, but don’t click on it if you have a weak stomach.