And then there were terrible things, like Alex’s assertion that the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children was completely fake … they clearly used actors. Inspired by claims like this, Sandy Hook truthers...
All over the world, famous people began declaring themselves LeBon fans. Like Mussolini: I have read all the work of Gustave LeBon and I don’t know how many times I have reread The Crowd. It is a capi...
«He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»
In our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist—the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowin...
If you’re beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you’re feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.
Complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.
Character. And I’ll tell you, it outweighed anything I’d ever done. What had she done? I ask. Shoplifting, says Tam. There is a silence. People have their own little guilt trips, says Tam. They look a...
You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people...
Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn’t function right.
What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there’s this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the...
Well, he said, the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient. There
Vas caminando por la calle, y se produce un accidente. Un coche ha atropellado a un niño. La gente se aglomera alrededor. Te acercas, el niño yace en el suelo y hay sangre por todas partes. Te manchas...
Tony faked mental illness. That’s when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn’t come and go. It is ho...
There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
The more he told me about himself, the more leverage I had for manipulation, he told Bob’s researcher. I just kept fueling the fire; the more fuel I added to the fire, the bigger payoff for me. I was...
The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us — that is terrifying.
The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us — that is terrifying. THE END
The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the...
The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could actually remold society, remold it all wrong,