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DarkMath ago

"The study showed that psychopaths have reduced connections between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), the part of the brain responsible for sentiments such as empathy and guilt, and the amygdala, which mediates fear and anxiety."

That sums it all up right there. All I thought of the first three months was how do these people seem so impervious to emotion. I was practically dry heaving at times. It was fucking horrible.

I think what's going on is a psychopath relies on their lower brain stem way more than normal because they weren't born with all the bells and whistles. The brain has two parts, the limbic system or reptilian brain and the neo-cortex where all higher more complex thought occurs. An artist will have all the neo-cortex and then some. The empathy center of an artists brain is probably the size of a grapefruit where the psychopath's got one the size of a grape seed.

So the artists go through life and see people suffering and are so overwhelmed they write "Les Miserables" or "Hamlet" or "War and Peace" just so they can stay sane while seeing the sordid human condition in all its depraved glory.

But the psychopath sees the same anguish and suffering of their fellow man and it barely registers. An alligator would probably pick up more of the human suffering walking through Spanish Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant* than a psychopath would. It's fucking hysterical. Oy-veh

"*" - Before Brooklyn became gentrified which today ironically gives me the same urge to puke my guts out. It's complicated. I'm leaning towards bringing back Revolutionary War prison ships in Wallabout Bay but this time gentrify them and move all the viscous hipsters there so Brooklyn can recover. tee-hee

Piscina ago

sees people suffering and are so overwhelmed You have just described me (and I'm sure a lot of other people here) perfectly.