The "Duper's Delight" burst of dopamine in Martin Shkreli's vacant frontal cortex makes all the difference eh? The sense of 'something off kilter' with them. Which is why many of them have no choice but to start/enter cults as they were too creepy for society and basically have to hide away.
As I was saying about psychopaths and chess. It is the one game they are often good at, as it requires deviousness and deception in order to win and it is not a creative game - just one based on previous predatory memories.
It's interesting what you say about the game Chess being a game that psychopaths are good at, because from what I understand the Chess master Bobby Fischer was not supposed to be a very nice person. Of course, he simply could have been a simple jerk-it's just an interesting point.
ReplyDeleteFisher may have been a nice fellow, when he was not busy jew bashing
DeleteFischer's reality was the confines of the chess board. That's why he came up with variants of the game to make it even more complex. He was not certain who his father was and his mother was always busy. It is not surprising he grew up a jerk. But at least he was a jerk who called a press conference so he could spit on the sanctions letter from the American State Department warning him not to play in Yugoslavia?
DeleteIf he was a psychopath, he at least channelled his energies in a harmless direction and it would suggest chess could be prescribed as a treatment.
Bobby Fischer on Chess,'...I don't want to promote this goddamn game because I hate it too much...people are living in a dream world.' Fischer left chess because he saw it as a delusional game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S4BU_AYJEs
DeleteFischer was autistic, not a psychopath.
DeleteWith all respect Thomas, Martin Shkreli is not a good chess player, he is just getting his picture taken. He could walk into any club in the country and he'll be guarantee a 100% ass kicking, he'll lose every game. The picture is a phony.
ReplyDelete''The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us
ReplyDeletesay, a promising politician, a rising artist, that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him,inoculate him with chess!'' Quoted from H.G. Wells.
He's right.
So, blog game? White or Black? :)
ReplyDeleteNever thought about chess like that, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteFisher v. Spassky / Digital v. Analog ???
How can a person prevent evil, unless he is capable of reading "the game". Do not blame the game, but the players who choose deviance.
ReplyDeletePardon me ingles, if I misspelled here and there. Complexity is what constitutes the world. Based on duality, many would claim. So is the game of chess.... The chosen strategy of some player, is a product of free will. It can be outmanuvered by another player, at the same leve, but with different "intentions". That said, I wish people would simply prefer to play tactically when it comes to chess, and not transfer that when it comes to Life.
Thomas,
ReplyDeleteRed Ice radio just did a interview with a Rob Kievsky. Heavily promoting the reptilian mindset as well as Kevin Dutton's work on so-called "Positive psychopaths" perhaps it might be worth giving your own opinion on these on Red Ice?