The Sociopath Next Door by Martha
Stout
Frightening
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?

In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was
not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and
colleague? They may be sociopaths too.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The
Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a
shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often
undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person
possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel
shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans,
therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your
neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel
absolutely no guilt.
How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics
is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or
interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous,
more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making
them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally,
sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early
on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’
suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.
The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths
already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the
moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone
we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But
what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr.
Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the
pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join
the game.
It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will
show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
Personal Review: The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
We are now at a juncture in history, when we will decide whether to take
action to avert and resusbscribe and assign those who have plagued our
society for all too long.

This book explains a personality and physiological type that explains
nearly all of the man made ills as we know them.
Everything from seriel crime, to major wars, to racist movements, to
corporate fraud, to white collar crime, to extreme and otherwise erstwhile
manipulators throughout current events and past history.
Nearly every intentional excess can be traced to a reptile mindset that has
been given the capacity of intellect to further its basic programming;
defends it territory and further its own agenda.
This is in stark contrast to the mamalian agenda which uses those primitve
instincts as a foundation, but tempers them with a social awareness, and
an innate need and desire to further and foster communal bonds for the
good of all.
Two two programs are in direct opposition, and result in clashes. Imagine
you cannot feel sympathy towards your fellow man. Imagine you cannot
love your family. Imagine you want to do what can ease your misery,
regardless of what anyone else feels. Imagine being born that way.
Imagine becoming successful through manipulation.
I'm reminded of everything from the head of Ford Aerospace in "Roger and
Me" to "Ted Bundy" to Facist leaders and movements, to the U.S. officers
during the Indian Wars on the frontiers, to Tojo during the second world
war, to anyone who has purposefully, intentionally, wantonly comitted
heinous acts of torture and misery on all living creatures for the sake of
gain.
One can think of the most horrible practices in poultry farms, slaughter
houses, mercenary bankers, mercenary loan officers, drug kingpins,
certain kinds of police officers, certain kinds of societal leaders, certain
kinds of so-called "geniuses" and the like, and it all boils down to a lack of
wiring in the grey matter.
I never believed in pure evil before. I truly thought that anti-social types
who were so callous as to feel no remorse for screwing over their fellow
man, were merely a product of environment.
It is not so. Not one bit. This book confirms and answers every notion and
question I had about the world social order, society as a whole, and
history.
Theories about sexual repression, mistreatment as a youth, financial
pressures and the like, can account for a small part of petty crime. But the
awful truth is that for all the petty thievery and other small time criminality
that exists, it is the sociopath, the reptile, the unevolved and undeveloped
person, the "human in name only", who causes nearly all of the serious
crime in all societies.

We now have the mechanical and electronic means of screening out and
dealing with malformed persons. We have the technology and know how.
Do we have the will?
I believe this to be more important than anything else in the world in terms
of us finally ending and uprooting, literally and figureativle, the root of all
evil.
Excessive exploitation of the world's natural resources, the exploitation of
the young, women and elderly, the destruction of emotional and financial
lives, can finally all be addressed if we take steps to bottle this genie once
and for all.
The madness must be stopped.
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