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The Wisdom of Psychopaths

What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
May 16, 2013hypocracy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
What was amazingly strange that Dr Dutton used his own father as an example of a psychopath (not enough convincing signs & symptoms); perhaps to prove how close they could be to us. What he doesn’t know is that he could have been taken in by a common trick among care givers (of psychopath types) in adult nursing homes. The Wisdom of Psychopaths is not only a marvelous read but also a rollicking account of the lives of successful psychopaths (the role of functional psychopathic behaviors in success if you believe that) around us and their extraordinary talent of manipulation for takeover of our daily living surroundings. Such as presidents like John F Kennedy & William Jefferson Clinton as he mentions in the book as high on the list of the successful functional psychopaths , CEOs, military intelligence operatives & agents of all kinds including the local police persons, surgeons, politicians, sales persons and priests just to mention few. By looking at our own lives and our daily encounters with the successful functional psychopaths we should realize that we are in deeper trouble than we knew. When our soldiers in uniform on combat duties defecate & urinate on the body of dead enemies; captured insurgents tortured to death while in custody; soldier on drug going on rampage and killing children and burning their bodies; while the president attends a gala eating and drinking knowing that the seals and drones are on kill missions. When a graduate student goes on killing spree in Movie Theater, or a 20 year old rich kid with psychopaths mother and rich estranged father (connected to high level security agencies) uses semiautomatic gun to slaughter 20 little kids (almost babies) and six adults; or two brothers who are perfectly fitted into our society decide to make homemade bombs to kill innocent bystanders; or this so-called psychopathic term of “war against terror” which is a war without end because terrorism is not a nation or a well-defined group but a technique used by all mentioned above. Creating whole new world and front with psychopathic behaviors, thoughts and culture by the psychopaths to fight the psychopaths among us; world where normal is abnormal and abnormal is normal; a world where psychopaths with their wisdom and serial killers (state & non-state sponsored) can teach us about success. In his book Dr Kevin Dutton brings psychopaths to life as vividly and with as much depth, brain & MRI, heart, and understanding as Kevin himself put into this his dad’s life. This is a story about psychopaths of all ages.