The false security of power, of being in complete control, is intoxicating. I feel the psychopathy needs to be viewed as this addiction. And yes, compensation for lack of love or whatever, or soul-level incarnation to act out this way. A desperate attempt at healing a wound.
High Functioning (successful damaged people) vs. Low Functioning (depressed failing people) Dark-Triad?
Overlay that on a winner take all society, guided by fraudulent civility and virtue signaling, protected by fake news and manufactured consent, then bad guys look good, project virtue without effort, and we the people ignorantly and gleefully grant them more of whatever they want.
When generations have been programmed to rely on "let us handle this for you", those who feed on being in control of others, get fatter and interbreed more.
It is long past time for the herd of control freaks to be culled.
I understand evil best from a supernatural perspective: that at some point these people are hijacked (or allowed in, perhaps) by an entity that is not constrained by normal human morality. This also leaves open the possibility that the humanity in these people can be resurrected if the entity can be defeated.
There does seem to be perpetrations of evil that are 'playing the long game', moving across cultures and generations, that are probably best understood as being engineered and overseen by "principalities and powers". I remember a book from years ago by a certain George Ottis Jnr called "The Twilight Labyrinth" that considered the history of influence of such principalities and powers over the ages.
The false security of power, of being in complete control, is intoxicating. I feel the psychopathy needs to be viewed as this addiction. And yes, compensation for lack of love or whatever, or soul-level incarnation to act out this way. A desperate attempt at healing a wound.
High Functioning (successful damaged people) vs. Low Functioning (depressed failing people) Dark-Triad?
Overlay that on a winner take all society, guided by fraudulent civility and virtue signaling, protected by fake news and manufactured consent, then bad guys look good, project virtue without effort, and we the people ignorantly and gleefully grant them more of whatever they want.
We have ended up here by design.
When generations have been programmed to rely on "let us handle this for you", those who feed on being in control of others, get fatter and interbreed more.
It is long past time for the herd of control freaks to be culled.
I understand evil best from a supernatural perspective: that at some point these people are hijacked (or allowed in, perhaps) by an entity that is not constrained by normal human morality. This also leaves open the possibility that the humanity in these people can be resurrected if the entity can be defeated.
There does seem to be perpetrations of evil that are 'playing the long game', moving across cultures and generations, that are probably best understood as being engineered and overseen by "principalities and powers". I remember a book from years ago by a certain George Ottis Jnr called "The Twilight Labyrinth" that considered the history of influence of such principalities and powers over the ages.