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Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas - On Psychopaths and Power

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Do We Have Psychopathy at the Top of Society?

In subserin africa one of the most dangerous places to lose power. In this 50 year period after independence, forty three % of the leaders who lost power were jailed, exiled or killed. Even in countries that may have better chances of reform, structurally, the crop of leaders they tend to get r re really awful. And i talk about this not just in the sense of politics, but also with policing. I think this is one of the areas where portrayals of what it means to be in power really, really matter. If you present power as this thing where you crush your enemies,. Mean, the people who want to crush their enemies are gong to try to do

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