There is no doubt that finance and politics attracts a much greater percentage of sociopaths and borderline personality disorder types... plenty of studies have shown that. It has even been suggested that positions of real power be forbidden to people who test clearly psychotic.polytrip said:There´s a big difference between people who´ve got wealthy or powerfull because they have a great talent and great discipline, and people who´re so obsessed with wealth and power that they´re willing to use any means to get there.
In some sectors like the financial sector, judicial sector or politic´s, no specific talent is required to be able to achieve something at all. Those sectors are infested with a disproportionate number of people who suffer from narcissism or psychopathy.
At least 5% of all employees in the financial sector suffer from psychopathy, where 1% is the norm.
Then you also have to realise that the terms psychopathy or narcissism realy mean that a person scores high on some kind of checklist, so the amount of people who´re borderline narcissists or psychopaths is even greater.
Investigators who´ve done research on psychopathy within corporations are even convinced that psychopathy within the financial sector is the main cause of most financial crisis: the financial system has many flaws, but as proven by scientists at RAND (during the cold war), the vast majority of people do not take advantage of flaws within the system they operate in.
This would be rather difficult to put into practice, as most hyper-manic people and sociopaths are smart enough to be able to outwit some ridiculous test.
Besides, psychological definitions of such personality types are often kind of worthless. People can be considered schizophrenic simply by virtue of hearing voices in their heads... unless they claim those voices to be in line with an accepted religious system of belief. If you claim to be hearing angels or JC talking to you, or have the Holy Spirit guiding your decisions, you don't end up in the looney bin.
Recently, psychologists decided to remove narcissism from the DSM 5 http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/11/30/personality-disorders-shakeup-in-dsm-5/ because it is no longer considered to be a real detriment to ones psyche, and has been (as you have said) linked with success and the accomplishment of great things. It can even be argued that one has little chance of doing something truly great if one is not at least a little bit narcissistic.
While most people kind of detest arrogance and narcissism in people around them, there is little evidence that being self-absorbed is actually a negative trait... you might not have many friends, but being overly social could be considered a major impediment to getting work done.
Obviously, having people like you makes you a happier and healthier person, and there are plenty of people who are quite successful who are humble and don't push everyone's buttons with their being full of themselves...
At any rate, psychopaths are a lot more dangerous than narcissists.
haha i like alex jones and i think he's quite an important figure in the modern world but hes talking about something he knows nothing about. Alex get back to exposing dodgy governments lol.
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