[kj] Killing joke and Communism

[Brendan]

Has anyone read "Without Conscience" by Robert Hare? It's about
psychopathy, a chilling read, my Dad got me to buy it online as research
for a book he has written (it is the last thing he is doing as he's dying
from cancer of everything). Hare is regarded as one if not the worldwide
expert on psychopaths. I am pretty sure I have known and been involved
with at least one in my time, if not a pure psycho then a lot of the
traits.

I have a theory that psychopathy and antisocial behavioural disorders are
on the increase for, amongst other reasons, lack of early parenting. My
cousin had her first baby recently, she had an elective caesarian for
starters, because it was easier for her, but she said from the get go that
she was going to get straight back to work as soon as possible. Sure
enough, within weeks she was back at work. Within months baby is in
daycare for 9 hours a day. She spends loads of money on baby, he has
everything you could ever want, and none of it compensates in my opinion
for having Mum and Dad around more.

I think that the drive towards productivity and consumerism / materialism
is causing Mums, through understandable social pressure, to feel pressured
to get back to work as soon as possible, to pay off the mortgage and not
let their careers slip too far behind. I believe that the consequences for
children are not good.

I was lucky enough to have several siblings, Mum was a fulltime Mum - and
more, I have 7 brothers and sisters!. I was breastfed, which I think
evidence suggests is more healthy, so I got all the love and attention I
needed in my first few years. I feel sorry for kids who don't have any
siblings and whose Mum ships them off to daycare as soon as possible, I am
not being judgemental, I understand the financial pressures just to keep
food on the table, but...I feel sorry for kids who don't get what pretty
much most humans have had for all of our history until the last few
hundred years...a fulltime Mum.

I believe there's a good chance that a lot of the disorders, in particular
the social, emotional, behavioural, and mental disorders, that have ramped
up drastically in the last few decades, are partly as a result of lack of
socialising and basically, proper love and attention from Mums in
particular.

I also have my suspicions about chemicals, electromagnetic fields, and the
decline of society's values, the rise of the culture of personality and
consumerism at the expense of values and character.

My 2c.


> The diagnoses of autism in the US are way, way, way up.

>

> I have a loved one with a brother who has been diagnosed with autism for

> a very long time. He does have the "little professor" thing going that

> can be a feature of autism; specifically, he has an encyclopedic

> knowledge of movies, movie stars, their careers, DVD editions of movies,

> and TV shows, etc. He has also many times attempted to hunt down and

> contact many Hollywood actors by way fof find their phone numbers, etc.,

> via the Internet. He does not seem to know how to modeulate his voice

> properly and speaks inappropriately loudly in social situations, and

> aside from allt his, from simply interacting with him you also get the

> feeling "he's just not all there," and I don't mean that in an offensive

> manner, I just mean that's the only way I can describe it without being

> more specific.

>

> He's actually a nice guy to me but can be horrible to his family. Like I

> said, his obsession is DVD and movies. He pulls fits and gets physically

> violent if he can't get DVD new releases as theyc ome out. he has a big

> bootleg collection. On some occasions this has actually been quite handy

> for me -- heh, heh -- and as he has an insanely intense interest in The

> Simpsons I've been able to talk to him at length about that show, and,

> yeah, he is like an encyclopedia.

>

> However, I have tto wonder wy diagnoses of autism have skyrocketed in

> recent years? Undetected before, or are more people getting it?

>

> Also, Asperger's I see in a different light. Asperger;s is more

> complicated and conroversial. Asperger's could really just be something

> introverted, socially awkward people who spend a lot of time on the PC

> tell themselves they have to make themselves feel better about it. I've

> met a few people who claimed to have had Asperger's and they seemed

> totally normal to me, but didn't have many friends, were really into PC

> gaming, and lots of gamer, nerdy stuff. I get suspicious about that

> designation. Diagnoses of that are also on the rise. Why?

>

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> paul wady wrote:

>>

>> Do you mean that you are German Frank?

>>

>> Yes, lots of Autistic kids have 'normal' parents, or very high

>> functioners so you wouldnt think they where.

>>

>> (Apart from the huge scrap books of favourite Radio Aerial photo's,

>> encyclopaedic knowledge of Star Trek, sensitivity of brick wall etc.)

>>

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