Here's the video for last week. Our guest had technical difficulties and didn't end up making it in time, so it turned into just a little Q&A about filling out forms, ethics, moral inconsistency, and religion.
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M.E. Thomas is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Sociopathworld Zoom Meeting 20 0504
Time: May 4, 2020 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Thanks - that was super interesting :) Finally managed to get my head around time zone thing, so glad I didn't miss it.
ReplyDeleteSorry missed this one. Will be on for the next. They are interesting and informative.
ReplyDeleteIn a fairytale a cat said to a woman: "-Do you know how they know? It´s like a radar. They sense it. Maybe a top actor can fool them. No one else. It´s such a different state of mind. An insect/snake mindset that does not care about the things ordinary people see as important."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if fairy tale scientists and philosophers go about their business, caring about the things they care about, quite puzzled as to why they are perceived as fake. As scientists, they might eventually realise they simply cannot furnish proof that they act in good faith to cats or cobras. Cats or cobras do not care about the things that resonates with and motivate them.
DeleteThat's the way it is.
But the scientists in the tale seem rather eager to prove they are certain things. It somehow seems so important for them to belong to the group they study. The cat sees what they are: ordinary people with longings to be something else, something powerful. They chase a dream. A strange dream about being cursed, like werewolves. Deluded. Like poor folks desperate to be rich, thinking this will change so much. The cat may seem spiteful, but it seems like it´s trying to help them.
DeletePhilosophers are philosophers as much as cats are cats.
DeleteThere is one language they share. Perhaps that's the only possibility. Perhaps it's enough.
Another question: what is the disdainful cat seeking to assist with exactly?
DeleteIt appears like the yarn cat is rather benevolent in situations where his kin is hateful & merciless. He seems to like the idea with an unusual approach to gain knowledge (a bit like when people take low level jobs they don´t need to find out how society works).
DeleteA curious cat!
DeleteI wonder, in the yarn, if the hobby philosopher like to keep fresh milk in the fridge for the proud, graceful cat of it should casually stroll past, a little thirsty. I wonder if, in their spare time, the hobby philosopher looks out from their porch, remembering the times the cat had visited in the past.
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your analysis of that Killing Eve scene! I think its spot on.
ReplyDeleteI am delighted with sociopaths, these are people with high intelligence, they perfectly manipulate people, they coldly analyze objective reality, they easily gain confidence. I look like them, but I am not.
ReplyDeleteSociopaths objectivity has to do with their lack of personality. "They" are somehow erased (the basic reason why psychopathy and narcissism is connected; the mind compensates for lack of inner person). The result often are neutral characters that don´t "invest" prestige in their opinions (they are interested in truth/fact, no matter how unpleasant or dark it is). Very similar to how the zodiac Scorpio does things.
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