I had a subscription to New Scientist, and I had read an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives. So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. Army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?' I snuck a peek of my medical notes later that day and I saw they'd written: Believes bees can sniff out explosives.” He paused, but then continued, “they're always looking for nonverbal clues to my mental state. Like how I sit or slouch or something. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way? How do you stand? Eat? Breath? It's just …show more content…
According to recent findings, one in a hundred regular people is a psychopath, so 1%. However, studies find that 4% of all CEO’s are psychopaths. The reason why is because capitalism at its most callous, rewards psychopathic behavior: lack of empathy, glibness, being cunning and manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its least forgiving state, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. It's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to rule us all.
So being the journalist that I am, I tried testing this statistic out. The first CEO I emailed didn’t reply, although that’s probably my fault seeing as I sent them a message asking “if I could come interview you to find out if you are a psychopath?"
So I changed tactic. I emailed Albert Dunlap, an asset stripper from the 1990s. He would come into failing businesses and close down 30 percent of the workforce, just turn American towns into ghost towns. I emailed him and said, "I believe you may have a very special brain anomaly that makes you special, interesting, and fearless. Can I come and interview you about your special brain anomaly?"
And he said, "Come on