Is Blair a Sociopath? - 2 comments
I can't remember if this did the rounds back in May, but James has brought it up. In Hollow man: Is Blair a Sociopath?, Jim Ennis offers 20 "common traits" of the successful psychopath and asks:
Any of the above sound familiar?Any? I have to say that "Promiscuous sexual behaviour", "Early behaviour problems", "Many short-term relationships", and "Criminal versatility" aren't the first things to come to mind when I think of Blair. I wonder if they apply to this guy? I'm no psychiatrist - nor is Jim for that matter - but it's completely bonkers and might keep you occupied for a few minutes on a slow Friday morning.
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Politically-minded people calling in psychotherapy on their side remind me so very much of those opposing WW1 armies all claiming some form of divine sanction. The best we have on psychopathy remains Dr Robert Hare's "Without Conscience". No honest reader of that book would point the finger at Blair in this respect, or Bush for that matter. But because I don't think that honesty is that high a priority for the sort of people who would want to do so, I don't think that facts and knowledge will suffice to stop them.
On following the link, I see that Jim Ennis cites Robert Hare - but he does so in a way I would consider intellectually dishonest - whilst Hare does present a list of psychopathic attributes, he warns quite specifically against their being used Ennis-style, a warning I presume Ennis has read and discarded as inconvenient.
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