@OP: Nice try at moral equivocation. Psychopathy has nothing to do with self-interest, it has everything to do with an inability to correctly perceive the world at a very gross level (for example, being delusional and believing you are Napoleon or something like that).
Sociopathy (which is what I think you’re trying to talk about) is like psychopathy but with respect to basic social facts, i.e., killing another person is wrong or saying hurtful things to a person is wrong, and so on. The inability to correctly perceive social facts and exhibit normal empathy toward human suffering are hallmarks of sociopathy.
Politics has always been filled with sociopaths and the release of the money flood (central bank inflation) draws them out like flies drawn to the smell of fresh, warm shit. This has nothing to do with psychopathy or self-interest. It has everything to do with the essential feature of political action: hypocrisy. A normal person who enters politics must learn, over time, to overcome the screams of his conscience at hurting people. The sociopath has a competitive advantage vis-a-vis the non-sociopath in this regard. He has a very real psychological problem that prevents him from experiencing the usual pangs of guilt at hurting another person or the feeling of empathy at the suffering of another. He breezes through the ranks of political power and quickly rises to the top. The higher you go in the political structure, the denser the sociopaths are.
The Elites are sorcerers and they conjure spirits - the spirit of the Beast is being conjured today as it was just prior to the Great War of 1914 and again just prior to the wars of Europe and the Pacific that started in 1939. The Beast is made of a million men, sociopaths devoid of all natural sympathy, devoid of conscience, psychologically incapable of feeling guilt or moral compunction. They are Beta males, submissive cowards who cannot feel at ease until they have found a leader to attach themselves to. In the Inquisitions of Europe, they were the dungeon-keeps, the torturers, the executioners, the members of the Holy Office, the snitches, the anti-witch and anti-heretic zealots and, of course, the ruling Elites, both secular and religious.
Rob Zombie artistically depicts the sorcery of the Elites here - it is a depiction of the world as seen through the eyes of the Beast after it has been conjured by what he calls the Lords of Salem and what I am calling the Elites. In mythical terms, the Beast is the ancient god Kronos who eats his own children. The Beast is the principle of cannibalism; it is the incarnation of the parasite. It is inexorable, relentless, pitiless.
The Beast is not natural, it must be conjured. The Beast is not an expression of self-interest. Social cooperation does not arise despite human nature but because of it. Every healthy, non-sociopathic human being has all the circuitry in his brain that he needs to be a normal, cooperative participant in society. No Leviathan is needed to create order, in fact, the Leviathan is the source of the destruction created by the Beast. The book of Revelations states that the Beast is conjured by the serpent (Leviathan) and this is precisely what happens. The ruling Elites (Leviathan) conjure the Beast and unleash it on humanity. They’ve done it countless times in human history.
How do they conjure the Beast? Well, it’s never precisely the same ritual but the essential principle is always the same: by redistributing the resources of society to the Beta sociopaths. Every legal and economic advantage is given to the special class of human beings which can only be described as slavishly obedient sociopaths. As these people rise through the ranks of political and economic power and influence, society begins to be restructured and the natural social order is perverted. Upright behavior is penalized while all forms of parasitism and cannibalism are rewarded with higher status, more influence and greater wealth. Once the Beast has been fully conjured, the Elites unleash it on society. The last shackles are removed and the Beast exhausts itself in one last orgy of death and devastation, wiping out untold wealth and entire populations.
Stop trying to peddle this bullshit that the sociopaths of politics are just like the rest of us. They’re not. They’re part of the Beast and - sooner or later - they will be the agents of death and devastation unleashed upon society.
Clayton -