Health Homework (42) If you're not actively defending yourself against psychopathic people and businesses, then you're probably being abused; you have to become aware, see it, and protect yourself

So let’s reasonably state that 65% of the population are untrustworthy zombies and 10% are overt or covert psychopaths/sociopaths; that gives us 75% of the population—3 per 4 free-living people in the population—are potentially dangerous. As such, you and I are interacting with psychopaths and sociopaths every single day of our lives when we interact with any group of people.

The classic and famous psychosocial studies by Milgram showed that the clear majority (>65%) of people will follow rules mindlessly and will inflict pain on others for no other reason than their mindless and flaccid submission to an authority figure.

Based on this data, we can reasonably state that 65% of the population can be described as any variety of the following: unconscious, weak, blindly submissive to authority, and with the very real potential to be cruel for no reason other than being instructed by a stranger to be cruel to others. That’s pretty damn sobering, but its data that we might reasonably accept based on clear and replicated data:

Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting a fictitious experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner". These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.[2] The experiments unexpectedly found that a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, with every participant going up to 300 volts, and 65% going up to the full 450 volts. Milgram first described his research in a 1963 article in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[3] ¹

Thus per the data above, for efficiency, we could say that 65% of the population are potentially-cruel/sadistic rule-following zombies.

Other research in psychopathy and sociopathy has shown that roughly 1% of the population is overtly psychopathic/sociopathic (eg, “natural born killers”, serial criminals, etc) while up to 10% of the population are high-functioning psychopaths—people with clear psychopathic/sociopathic traits but who are able to function in society even at a high level, including business administrators, doctors, military/political leaders. Commonly these people have a tendency to be “odd” and “unusual” but they are not overtly sadistic/psychopathic/sociopathic until and unless certian circumstances are met. Two excellent examples of high-functioning psychopaths/sociopaths that I have studied are:

• Colonel David Russell Williams is a Canadian serial rapist, murderer and former colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Williams was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England and his family later immigrated to Canada. He studied economics and political science at the University of Toronto Scarborough before embarking on a career in the Canadian Forces. He was also a decorated pilot who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries and heads of state.² The case of 47-year-old Col. Russell Williams — commander of Canada’s largest air base by day; sexual predator and killer by night — shocked Canadians as it ran its course last year. When it finally ended, on Oct. 21, 2010, Williams was sentenced to two life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years for the murders of Jessica Lloyd, 27, and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 37, and scores of other crimes.³

• Dr Shirley Jane Turner—doctor who killed her boyfriend and eventually killed their child.⁴ She probably had borderline personality disorder. I first saw the documentary DEAR ZACHARY⁵ back in 2010 and it helped me accept the concept of high-functioning psychopaths.

Thus per the above, we could reasonably state that at least ~10% of the population is overtly psychopathic/sociopathic (eg, “natural born killers”, serial criminals, etc) or up high-functioning psychopaths, with potential behaviour ranging from manipulation, to subtle or overt abuse, to serial murder.

OBVIOIUS CONCLUSIONS: So based on the above, let’s reasonably state that 65% of the population are untrustworthy zombies and 10% are overt or covert psychopaths/sociopaths; that gives us 75% of the population—3 per 4 free-living people in the population—are potentially dangerous.

1. As such, you and I are interacting with psychopaths and sociopaths every single day of our lives when we interact with any group of people.

2. As such, if you're not actively defending yourself against psychopathic people and businesses, then you're probably being abused.

3. Remember—the vast majority of businesses and institutions do not care about you and they are unable to care about you; they will make promises about “customer service” and “community” but they (the bosses) are primarily interested in making their money and going home to live their lives. In other words: most businesses are psychopathic and predatory by design because of their capitalist structure and direction – they don’t care about you. They’re in the business to make money not to protect you or care about your feelings. If you get hurt, but they make money they don’t care.

4. When we moved back to the USA in 2022, I noticed a clear shift in people and in the way that businesses performed—making money was clearly the chief goal and most people and businesses performed at a sub-par level with very low performance. I presume that the previous 3 years of lock-downs, political chaos, and brain-damaging injections were the main causes.

OBVIOUS ACTIONS: 1) become aware, 2) notice the patterns and signals, 3) enter into all new personal-business relationships with skeptisism not blind pollyanna enthusiasm.

1. See my previous suggestions such as the videos linked immediately below on dealing with maniplative people.

   1. QUICKLY Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People in Your Personal Life, Job, and National Politics

   2. STRUCTURED UNDERSTANDING: Introducing the A.I.D.E. acronym for dealing with manipulative people (including politicians and institutions)

   3. Like I said before, "Identify manipulators and psychopaths by their inconsistency."

2. Read books on the topic, eg, In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People by Dr. George K. Simon (Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech University)

Here are 2 excellent videos/documentaries on Colonel David Russell Williams and Dr Shirley Jane Turner—these are provided for your convenience but these are not without disturbing content.

Watch at your own discretion, but—again—the content is very real and also very disturbing if you’re a normal person, especially if you are a normal person who trusts that people are good and who has an optimistic view of life and humanity.

For better or for worse, I find only the trailer for the DEAR ZACHARY documentary but of course you can search for the complete video online:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Williams_(criminal)

3. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna41665374

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Andrew_Bagby_and_Zachary_Turner

5. https://www.dearzachary.com/