The Post-Partisan Emporium

  WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WESTERN POLITICAL CLASS? GAIUS BALTAR There are several reasons why the non-western world is increasingly severing ties with the West. One of them can be described as the “breakdown of diplomacy” in the West, which more accurately refers to the almost total abandonment of diplomacy by western leaders and diplomats. Incidentally, this didn’t start with the war in Ukraine, but about a year earlier. Something happened right after the election of Joe Biden which seems to have switched the western diplomatic gene off, so to speak, and switched on the threat gene instead. Not that there was much diplomacy before, but things can always get worse – and they have. A breakdown of diplomacy doesn’t quite describe how bad things have become. The behavior of US and European leaders has become increasingly unhinged and any semblance of rationality has been abandoned. It is impossible to listen to western leaders without coming to the conclusion that something is very wrong.

Danger-zone Psychopathy Lobaczewski and Chris Langan on intelligent psychopaths Harrison Koehli Gary Cole as “Bill Lumbergh” in  Office Space  (1999). If you could go ahead and read this article, that’d be great. Oh, and I’m also gonna need you to subscribe, kay. Are psychopaths smart? Contrary to the impression some may have of the psychopath as evil genius, the reality is not so romantic. According to Lobaczewski, they are less intelligent on average, and you won’t find many, if any, super geniuses among their ranks. Of course, that’s not to say that there aren’t  smart  psychopaths. Their bell curve is just shifted down a bit to the left (if Lobaczewski is correct). Which means you’re probably just as likely to encounter a relatively smart psychopath as you are a slightly-more-than-relatively smart normal person. Here’s how he put it: The average intelligence of essential psychopaths, especially if measured via commonly used tests, is  somewhat lower than that of normal people, albe