Socio-Pathology

Seems to me I recently read some interesting news on the facebook.  This was posted by one of my legion of friends, if, in fact, a legion numbers fewer than 400.  Without going into any great detail, the story concerned the writer’s conviction that most CEO’s of the country’s major corporations are either sociopaths or psychopaths, or perhaps a mixture of the two.  Just so you know, sociopaths are merely self-centered while psychopaths are sociopaths who are considerably more involved in their mental illness.

Well, it sort of goes without saying, big business is cutthroat, no holds barred and take no prisoners.  If you don’t put your competition out of business, your competitors won’t pass on any opportunity to put you in the welfare line.  And then there is the ego of most people who are involved in big business; maniac is usually seen paired with that word.

So, yes, when you are, say, the CEO of one of the nation’s largest corporations, you are apt as not to spend a fair amount of your time on the French Riviera wining and dining, say, those who seek to occupy elected offices, such as, oh, say, the United States Congress, in the off chance that you might have some business come before that body someday.

Speaking of office holders, both incumbent and prospective, you are just as apt to find a fair number of sociopaths/psychopaths in this group as well.  As the case is alleged to be with business bigwigs, anyone who is able to organize a successful run for, say, Member of Congress, usually has the ability to believe everything that is said about them.  Just the good stuff their supporters would say, mind you, none of the mudslinging their opponents would engage in.

Well, there is a popular saying many believe comes from the Bible, but which actually comes from Shakespeare’s King Lear; Pride goeth before the fall.  And oh, how many have fallen along the way.  The road to any political office is littered with the remains of the careless.

Such is the case with New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.  This Brooklyn Democrat, one of the most unapologetic liberals in the House of Representatives, has fallen into not one trap, but a whole bunch of traps, the most of which he set for himself.

Well, it’s not like Rep. Weiner didn’t know what could happen.  How many times have these sort of things happened over the past few years?  More times that you could ever imagine.   And how many times has the accused denied any responsibility?  See the answer to the first question.  How easy would it have been, once you were caught, to have owned up to your own culpability?  Far easier than you would ever think.  And how disastrous are the consequences when you have to come back before the news media and explain those lies, aka, alibis, you just told?  Don’t answer that one.

What’s worse is how you are going to be treated by late night talk show hosts, and how the internet is going to literally shred you.  But when your name is Weiner-and we all know the nature of the offenses Congressman Weiner is said to have committed, don’t we ( wink, wink)-let’s just say this shouldn’t even happen to a dog!