Jon Ronson’s book ‘The Psychopath Test’ makes many references to examples of specific brain activity that signal of psychopathic propensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, these signals only arise in relation to some stimulus – e.g. extreme images of mutilated bodies (psychopaths hardly react, or seek more details)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But is the signal a cause or a response? Is it inherent, i.e. it’s the way your brain is made, or can it be trained\/socialised? Does the repeated exposure to horrifying images on Twitter (now rebuilt as a snuff porn hub) dull the signal or exaggerate it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or both? If it dulls, then people become indifferent to psychopathic stimuli, they are normalised; if it exaggerates it, well people become less subject to other controls that might exist either within the psyche or externally to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In either case, driven by PsychoMusk’s love of violence-porn, Twitter fuels psychopathic tendencies, one video at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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