re: #168 Obdicut

I’m not making it an argument about tone. I’m pointing out that if the diagnosis is true; that what we have is a corporate structure that rewards antisocial personality disorders, then first of all that means that there’s little reason to blame those people doing the most evil crap, since they have something broken in their heads that inhibits their empathy and blaming them for it is like blaming someone with a steroid-producing tumor for having a bad temper.

Frankly, I’m not out for blame, or vengance, or just to hate on someone. I just want to work towards figuring out what the problem is, what do do about it, and convincing others to take action. I don’t want to hang rich people from trees or whatever.

It’s like if something about the structure of modern daycare caused a high ratio of schizophrenics to enter the field. I wouldn’t interested in blaming the disordered for a condition that they don’t have control over, I would just be interested in how to stop them from being responsible for a large number of children.

And second of all, if that’s what we’ve got, then what do we do about it? How do we change the culture? That is kind of the heart of the Occupy stuff; they’re correctly identifying that the corporate world is set up in an unempathetic, unympathetic way, an anti-social way, but I don’t think changing banking regulations is actually going to fix that. It might help.

It’s a cultural problem that we have— how do you fix a cultural problem?

Good question. I couldn’t say for sure.