Let’s face it, my Deep Throat had said to me, nobody rules the world anymore. The markets rule the world. Maybe that’s why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth i...
Jim returned from his journey in 1979 and wrote a confidential paper for his superiors. The first line read, The U.S. army doesn’t really have any serious alternative than to be wonderful. A disclaime...
It’s as if both Midas and also the Queen of Narnia were here, I said, and the Queen of Narnia flew above a particularly fierce zoo and turned everything there to stone and then transported everything...
It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.
In the middle sat Brad Blanton. He was a large man. His shirt, open to his chest, was yellow-white, like his hair. With his sunburned face, he looked like a red ball abandoned in dirty snow.
I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn’t know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).
I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?
I think he saw his checklist as something pure—innocent as only science can be—but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices and crazy predispositions. When
I suspect it was probably unusual to suffer from both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Malingering, unproductiveness tending to make me feel anxious, but there it was. I had both.
I suppose he was being rewarded so richly because his messages were inspirational. My talks tend to be more disincentivizing, which, I have noticed, pays less.
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the em...
I hadn’t realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been,
I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't have unrelated hobbies.
I closed the manual. I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders, I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.
He said I really had to be careful. Psychopaths are truly dangerous, he said. And they’re often the people you least expect them to be. When
Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a dictator in the making.
For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of contempt and disdain, the temptation to gain instant respect in this way can be worth far more than the cost of going to prison or even of dying.’ An...
But amongst a group who hadn’t read it an opinion was beginning to form,
Bilderberg
As a group they tend to be more charming than most people, she said. They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us. They're the boss or the coworker who likes to make other peo...