- Subtitle:
- Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
- Version:
- Language:
- Length:
- 236 pages
- Review Format:
- Book
- Year:
- 1999
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
Non-Fiction - Author:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- Psychopaths are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know the difference between right and wrong, yet they are terrifyingly
self-centered , remorseless, and unable to care about the feelings of others. - Themes:
- Alienation
- Curative
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Ethnicity
- Evolution
- Family
- Grieving
- Identity
- Individualism
- Justice
- Loneliness
- Loyalty
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Nature
- Nostalgia
- Personal
- Political
- Political Correctness
- Preventive
- Republicanism
- Role modeling
- Social class
- Society
- Snobbery
- Solipsism
- The State
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar to:
- America’s Most Wanted
Psychology is the disease for which it pretends to be the cure
WHITE MAN’S CURSE: Self-Absorbed Gratification and a Sense of Omnipotence & Entitlement
F
ascinating look at the psychopathy inherent in Whites (most psychopaths are White) but which refuses to admit this simple fact. This book tries to scare readers to make a buck for its author by evading the issue that the problem with psychopaths is predominantly a White problem - that only Whites, therefore, can fix. Extensive use of the words our
& us
, does not
Science is here being used to label people that Whites simply do not like because they remind them of the personality traits they keep baffling
and complex
(since they are not
Black people, for example, have experienced the deleterious effects of White psychopathy for centuries - so find it easy to spot the variable mixture of baffled
, since the murders committed by, say, the KKK are still not considered psychopathic by Whites, but as racial
Trying hard to distance themselves from psychopaths, Whites mis-describe the condition and pretend psychopaths are somehow different from other people in some fundamental way; that is, a lack of empathy that is really nothing more than the desire for a lack of empathy - to facilitate the exploitation of others. Here, Whites confuse the goal, itself, with the achievement of the goal, through subjective inference cloaked in the respectability of scientific discourse - all this allied with the refusal to
Perhaps psychopaths are a different species of human or, par for the course with White supremacy, a
After all this hypothesizing, this book provides only meager help for protecting oneself against psychopaths, since Whites are in denial about the fact that it is White culture that produces such
Normal people are perfectly able to protect themselves from psychopaths only insofar as they are normal. Psychopaths prey on the very weaknesses that Whites so commonly manifest: Financial greed,
Psychopaths are common in White media precisely because they are common in White culture. Like Whites, they know the difference between right and wrong and are fully aware of the consequences of their actions yet, like Whites, they are
This appearance of normality does not fool everyone else, who clearly see that this White description of the psychopath
Despite the title of this book, there is no evidence that psychopaths lack a conscience - only the subjective claim that because they do not do what normal people do then they cannot have a conscience. But this is anthropomorphism, not science. The expressed White fear of such people, that such a view reveals, is really a the fear of ones own reflection. Of con-artists, hustlers and rapists who charm, lie and manipulate their way through life to get others to do the responsible work of individuation that they, themselves, should be doing.
The anger directed at psychopaths by this author attempts to hide the usual White resentment at anyone’s apparent ability to be free of guilt while doing as they please. Whites also envy the emotional emptiness of the psychopath who seems so easily to avoid being
Hardly surprising then that since Whites looted, raped and
Perhaps this White author will one day write an honest book about White culture and its endemic problems - serial-killing, various addictions, child-molestation, etc - and end the whitewashing that such a culture regularly receives from dishonest authors eager to pretend the problems of the world - and their solutions - have nothing to do with them. Or, perhaps, collaborate with a Black psychiatrist who can see Whites more clearly than Whites see themselves.
The most disturbing
aspect of this book is, in fact, the extent to which Whites evade the truth about themselves in hiding behind
This book sees human nature simplistically as the source of problems to be checked rather than as the source of human happiness; it is obsessed with regulating behavior that Whites fear rather than freeing it. It is dedicated to turning Whites into robots - as opposed to psychopaths - because the author sees humans as animals to be trained, as in A Clockwork Orange. The ultimate goal is to create a dictatorship of psychiatrists.
Angry, insincere and repetitive, as if author does not believe his own thesis and thinks whining on about terrible criminal psychopaths are (we already know how bad they are, so why keep going on about this?) will make his
Either Whites are He was such a nice boy! Who’d’ve thought he’d rape and mutilate those kids.
The lack of understanding of psychopathy is replaced with sneering and unscientific contempt - as if the author knows the right buttons to press in his readers, but lacks sufficient insight to help with the fears he attempts to exploit. This is little more than an unscientific puff for PCL-R that contains no references to other, similar metrics that just may be better in their predictive intent and result. Dr HARE describes psychopaths as social predators
, while pointing out that most do not commit murder. His work possesses a high
Although a shallow book, it does contain some useful information that will be of use to POC in dealing with the psychopathic nature of White culture and of how to avoid being hurt by Whites by explaining their most likely behavior and the fact that psychopaths can pass for fully-human in White culture since they are so similar to all Whites - and, so, harder to pick out. And yet, if Whites spent as much time looking for sexists, White supremacists and social snobs as they do looking for other psychopaths, there would be a lot less of all of these social problems. But the lives of women, Black people and the poor do not matter to Whites: Fortunately for POC, most victims of psychopaths are White. And the peculiarity of this book is that a White scientist does not ask the victims of sexism, classism & White supremacy for their survival strategies - which would be far superior to those enumerated here. With Whites, potential victims face a simple choice: Adapt to a hopeless situation by a) giving in; b) accepting others treatment of you as an inferior; c) losing their
A curious characteristic of Whites is their desire to be seen as cool; that is, to drain away what little humanity they have in favor of aping psychopaths - which they do rather well compared to other ethnic groups who favor
See also:
- Problems with psychopathy checklist
- Psychopathy as a General Theory of Crime
- Review - Without Conscience
