The Sociopathic Epidemic

The American Thinker ^ | November 04, 2009 | Robin of Berkeley

[Scanian]

I'm amazed by the soothsayers: Ayn Rand, for instance, who warned us fifty years ago of the risk of dictatorship or civil war if collectivism persisted. Or economist Friedrich Hayek, who wrote in the 1940s that we'll become serfs if we move toward big government.

However, what feels most prophetic lately is an obscure movie from the l970s called Little Murders. The writer, Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, predicted that the '60s would unleash a feral, primitive society.

The movie has a checkered history. It started out as a play on Broadway in the mid-'60s that was such a bomb, it closed after seven performances.

Audiences were shocked and horrified by the apocryphal world presented. At the time, New York's elite were celebrating the sexual revolution and the loosening of social mores. In contrast, Feiffer envisioned an eventual train wreck -- a nihilistic world of little and big murders of the soul.

[concerned about politics]

Jules Feiffer, predicted that the '60s would unleash a feral, primitive society.

He was right. Liberalism has people living more like animals than humans.

[gattaca]

What a great article, I’ll have to look for that movie.

[FourPeas]

Interesting article, but I disagree about her delineation of narcissism and sociopathy. As the author says, there are degrees of narcissism, from healthy narcissism to pathological narcissism. I contend that pathological narcissism is sociopathy. But that's a fairly minor skirmish. Other than that, the article is spot on.

[jazzlite]

Painfully accurate.

[Dr. Sivana]

The movie is available on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/tocadiscoshumano#p/u/21/ZiYf97IddK0

I never liked Jules Feiffer’s writing or cartoons. He himself is pretty hard left. I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance the way Orwell must have.

[gattaca]

Thank you!

[Ronbo1948]

Interesting article by Robin of Berkeley this morning at AMERICAN THINKER illustrates well what I have said for the last five years to anyone who would listen to me: A very violent and bloody civil war is brewing in this country between the Right and Left. The election of the sociopath Barak Obama to the presidency puts violence on the fast track because of the hatred the Left has for the American institutions expressed almost daily in the Media, Academia, Government and on the Streets. At some point this vast army of sociopaths created by the Left will enter the arena of mass violence and in self defense the Right will respond with its own ruthless army of Radical Republicans almost as bad.

“YES, ROBIN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD!”

[Ronbo1948]

I agree. Narcissism is part of the sociopath (psychopath) persona. The classic example is Mr. Obama.

[Turborules]

Goldwater said it best...Extremeism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice!”

[Haiku Guy]

Have you ever noticed how many car ads have all the other cars of the road disappearing or removed from the road to places unknown, so our hero in his Brand New Spiffmobile LX can drive on unimpeded?

Where did all of those cars go? What happened to all those innocent people?

We're not supposed to care.

[Brugmansian]

I never liked Jules Feiffer’s writing or cartoons. He himself is pretty hard left. I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance the way Orwell must have.

The entire family is/was twisted. One of Feiffer's cousins was Joe McCarthy's side-kick Roy Cohen. Another cousin? Dick Morris. Dick got his start in the 60s with Jerrold Nadler and Eugene McCarthy. Feiffer, in the 60s, was ragging on white liberals for being more interested in the sexual revolution (which he despised) than the civil rights movement. Jules also despised Bob Dylan.

[Arthur McGowan]

Mother Teresa said, “A nation that permits abortion is teaching its people to use violence to get what they want.”

So far, about 50 million women and 50 million men in America have been directly involved in killing a baby to get what they want.