"Neoliberal free market economics can only be implemented and administered by sociopaths, or people prepared to employ sociopathic behaviour and characteristics, people who have no concern for, nor empathy with, other people, unless those others are in like mind and in agreement with them. That is because such people never recognise that other people have rights, and regard their own self-serving behaviour as, not only permissible, but desirous for the wider social context. The behaviour, both economic and political, that led to the financial crash in 2008 was classic sociopathic, indeed as we will just see, some people regard it as psychotic. This behaviour displayed a complete selfishness and a total disregard for other people and the wider society. It was unrestrained recklessness and greed and displayed a complete disregard for what most people recognise as common decency. For the British elite, enough is never enough. The political and economic establishment regard it as their right to behave as they do."
Now, you are all aware that I have long considered both Mad Tony and the Camoron as sociopathic and probably psychotic, indeed I came to the conclusion that the Great Bliar was quite mad in 1998. Now, British governments, have been engaging in a series of ruinous wars since my psychotic friend entered Downing Street in 1997, and a House of Commons Report published yesterday delivered a damning verdict on the Camoron's attack on Libya. Todays' Guardian newspaper writes
"David Cameron’s intervention in Libya was carried out with no proper intelligence analysis, drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, according to a scathing report by the foreign affairs select committee. The failures led to the country becoming a failed a state on the verge of all-out civil war, the report adds. The report, the product of a parliamentary equivalent of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, closely echoes the criticisms widely made of Tony Blair’s intervention in Iraq, and may yet come to be as damaging to Cameron’s foreign policy legacy".
It was Albert Einstein who wrote that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same mistakes whilst expecting different outcomes, and, if you hold a psychopath like Mad Tony up as your role model, as the Camoron repeatedly told us he did, we should not be surprised that you produce the same disastrous results. I raise this matter because research has been published from a collaboration of forensic psychologists from Bond University in Queensland Australia and the University of San Diego that identifies that one in five corporate bosses are psychopaths, defined as displaying clinically significant psychopathic traits, in proportionate numbers to those found in prisons. Such people all display characteristics such as an inability to empathise, superficiality and insincerity. They make the perfect candidates for the Westminster pigsty. The research says that 'a type of “successful psychopath” who may be inclined to unethical or illegal practices has been allowed into the top ranks of companies because of the way firms hire' and I would argue that exactly the same thing happens in politics, particularly in the UK with the centre vetting all candidates in all of our major parties. This research has just been presented at the Australian Psychological Society’s annual congress in Melbourne. The congress was also told that “Being a psychopath might predispose someone to short-term success. They tend to be charming and flamboyant, which makes it easier to be successful in the short-run, although that may be purchased at expense of long-term failure.” and that while psychopaths account for only a minority of the workforce they could wreak havoc on organisations because "Their personality usually leads them to exploit every avenue open to them, whether it's in a criminal setting, or within organisations,"
I do not wish to appear insulting, but I was writing this stuff at least three years ago, and my point was one that our researchers appear to have overlooked, that the imperatives of free market economics require sociopaths and psychopaths to implement them because sensible people who have moments of rationality can see the logical outcomes of free market systems and refuse to accept them. Thus, even if you are not a natural sociopath, should you prostitute yourself and debase your intellect by accepting the call of free market socio/political and economic ideologies for your own personal advancement, you are impelled to adopt socio/psychotic personality traits and practices if you wish to be successful. You must forsake your humanity and your decency and apply yourself to the debasement of your fellow human beings and the destruction of social order, and if you seek political office you are required to adopt the characteristics of a gibbering bombastic charlatan, in other words you become like Mad Tony, The Camoron, Boris the Spider etc.
It is self-evident that neoliberalism, both its economic and political variants, has failed, but we are either too lethargic or too browbeaten to challenge it in a meaningful way. We have just been informed that bonuses in the UK topped £44 billion pounds last year, even greater than at the height of the financial crisis, in other words, we have learned nothing and have done nothing to reverse the drivers of our misfortunes, therefore condemning ourselves to repeat history. Thus, whilst the elite reward themselves with fortunes for incompetence, the average British worker, who has not had a wage increase for the last six years, still votes for these psychopathic gangsters. You get the governments you deserve. Roll on Scottish independence, you have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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