Years later, I was a journalist in London when I was asked to report on a case about a criminal mental patient, Bryan, who was petitioning to get released. So I caught a train to Broadmoor – London’s premier mental institution for the criminally insane. I began to yawn uncontrollably on the way there, which apparently is what dogs do when anxious - they yawn uncontrollably. Once I arrived, the staff took me through gate after gate until, eventually, we got to the wellness center – the place where you get to meet the patients. It looks eerily like nice but not so nice hotel. Everything is beige and peach and calming colors. The only things that stood out was the neon red of the panic buttons on the walls. The patients started wandering in; they
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I had a subscription to New Scientist, and I had read an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives. So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. Army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?' I snuck a peek of my medical notes later that day and I saw they'd written: Believes bees can sniff out explosives.” He paused, but then continued, “they're always looking for nonverbal clues to my mental state. Like how I sit or slouch or something. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? How do you stand? Eat? Breath? It's just …show more content…
According to recent findings, one in a hundred regular people is a psychopath, so 1%. However, studies find that 4% of all CEO’s are psychopaths. The reason why is because capitalism at its most callous, rewards psychopathic behavior: lack of empathy, glibness, being cunning and manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its least forgiving state, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. It's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to rule us all.
So being the journalist that I am, I tried testing this statistic out. The first CEO I emailed didn’t reply, although that’s probably my fault seeing as I sent them a message asking “if I could come interview you to find out if you are a psychopath?"
So I changed tactic. I emailed Albert Dunlap, an asset stripper from the 1990s. He would come into failing businesses and close down 30 percent of the workforce, just turn American towns into ghost towns. I emailed him and said, "I believe you may have a very special brain anomaly that makes you special, interesting, and fearless. Can I come and interview you about your special brain anomaly?"
And he said, "Come on
I had a subscription to New Scientist, and I had read an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives. So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. Army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?' I snuck a peek of my medical notes later that day and I saw they'd written: Believes bees can sniff out explosives.” He paused, but then continued, “they're always looking for nonverbal clues to my mental state. Like how I sit or slouch or something. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? How do you stand? Eat? Breath? It's just …show more content…
According to recent findings, one in a hundred regular people is a psychopath, so 1%. However, studies find that 4% of all CEO’s are psychopaths. The reason why is because capitalism at its most callous, rewards psychopathic behavior: lack of empathy, glibness, being cunning and manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its least forgiving state, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. It's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to rule us all.
So being the journalist that I am, I tried testing this statistic out. The first CEO I emailed didn’t reply, although that’s probably my fault seeing as I sent them a message asking “if I could come interview you to find out if you are a psychopath?"
So I changed tactic. I emailed Albert Dunlap, an asset stripper from the 1990s. He would come into failing businesses and close down 30 percent of the workforce, just turn American towns into ghost towns. I emailed him and said, "I believe you may have a very special brain anomaly that makes you special, interesting, and fearless. Can I come and interview you about your special brain anomaly?"
And he said, "Come on