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It is well accepted that Wall Street banksters, etc., who make it to the top of corporate and political institutions are sociopathic or psychopathic = the absence of common Human empathy, n’est-ce pas?

For example, Goldmen-Socks [stet] Blankfein and coal mogul Blankenship are clearly sociopathic. Indeed, Thom Hartmann and many others, including psychologists, expound on this matter on national radio regularly.

Furthermore, Sam, the aforementioned Wall Streeter is NOT the exception, but the rule; just as felonious PO-LICE batterers and murderers do not constitute “a few rotten apples” or “mere rogue PO-LICE.” They are cohorts in an institution of systemic criminality and structural corruption. (The Blue code of silence is clear evidence.)

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On the other hand, do you not agree, Sam, that the Catholic dogma of eternal torture in hell has NORMALIZED such behavior as torture, violence, and felonious PO-LICE assault and battery on citizen and non-citizen victims?

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And is it not the case, Sam, that such heinous violence among the PO-LICE is actually increasing, but not decreasing, as I assume Pinker might claim?

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

Also, do you really think psychopaths make it to the top? Those who have made it to the top could surely be accused of being greedy or immoral, but I doubt they would be clinically diagnosed as being psychopathic. You might be conflating people who are greedy and immoral with psychopaths. These are two very different things.

Today our delusion that we can control and boss nature around through science, technology and corporatism means we think we don’t need the divine anymore. Strangely enough the greatest act of violence against the planet and it’s inhabitants, ulitimately including every human, is playing out as a result.

We have tried to create our own god vast corporate and political institutions, it turns out only psychopaths not saints make it to the top
of these institutions, and they fail us miserably, Pinker makes me wonder if modern academia is any different, he is part of this modern super-violence in my view.