Self-acceptance
is the key. Once we accept our imperfections, they lose their power and others
cannot use them to manipulate us. Being without conscience helps. Being evil
automatically means having a great deal of self acceptance. The bits about
yourself you can’t accept are the human things which you therefore repress very
deeply. The qualities you repress are what you hate in other people.She radiates beauty and a very strong magnetic energy and , smiling at me, said, ‘I came back to spread the joy. ‘ She is smiling because we both know very well that joy is the last things she intends to spread. She is no longer blonde and is too slim but her plastic breasts, the present from her mafia boyfriend during her Italian period stand to attention, nipples visible through her thin dress. A dress that isn’t nearly as expensive as she would like because she only makes 150K. This hurts and humiliates her but she has settled for it. She intends to sleep with the big boss to raise it but she will never be rich unless she divorces her handsome house-husband whom she keeps in a low level of fears that she might leave him. She intends to but hasn't in ten years and time is going past but it suits her having a domestic slave. he thinks she is the best thing that happened to him but she has emasculated him.
She is relaxed, unstressed and I can tell she really is happy.
She has a well paid job near the top of a big tobacco company. She loves the idea of tobacco - for the suckers, not for herself for she is a health fanatic and hypochondriac. A story i told her about children in Malawi tobacco farms earning $1 a week gave her immense pleasure.
We are standing at a dull cocktail party.
‘I was interested in what you said when I said that the tobacco industry , from your Darwinian point of view, was making the world a better place, by killing off the weak. You said you were‘ laughing inside’. You were alone in the room and there was no reason why you shouldn’t have laughed aloud but that’s how you do laugh, isn’t it? You laugh aloud only to manipulate people. And I please you by telling you about bad things that have happened to people you know and you always say ‘that’s so sad’. When really...’
Her too-large mouth (the only defect on a wonderful face) opens to its widest extent and she whoops: 'I am really thinking YES!!'
She makes everything seem wonderful fun, like a sport. How, she seems to imply, can you not like a girl like me? She has a phony charm, laden with sex, and a genuine charm, because she is a child, though an evil child, and children are always charming, up to a certain point.
Cocktail party small talk with two rich men in the room.
‘In the States as soon as somebody hits on me on a plane and I tell them I am in the tobacco industry they immediately stop talking. Unless they are a hedge fund executive or something like that.’ She uses cynicism and racism as sexual turn-ons and she tells one man that there are far too many Mexicans in California, another that there are too many immigrants in New York, and she wrinkles her face is comic distaste when someone mentions a white woman who married a black man.
On her MySpace page she says she says under games ‘I am not much interested in games ‘. A good joke since games are all that she is interested in. When I mention this she bursts out , ‘Eric Berne’s Games People Play is one of my favourite books.’
Before I
ask. I once thought of giving it to you.
Oh I read it
twenty years ago. I’ve studied transactional analysis a lot –believe me I’m a
huge fan of transactional analysis.
She works at the craft of psychopathy with the ardour and commitment of a scholar and she is a very good scholar.
She is the classic psychopath but that is a tautology because all psychopaths are classic psychopaths. They all resemble each other like happy families, just like a pickpocket resembles Adolf Hitler. But they do not have the same level of skill. ‘I’m the best’, she says. Perhaps she is.
Someone long ago wrote a novel about her in which she was aptly described as 'Mephistopheles in a bikini'. Even at forty she would still look very good in a bikini (her breasts are silicone)and she is no less Mephistophelean but she has honed her skills and is constantly learning new ones. ‘I’ve matured a lot. I’ve got much better. Or much worse.’ A girlish giggle.
Charles Baudelaire said "Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself’ and this applies as much to evil geniuses as to the other kind. She thinks she is a genius, of course, and, actually, she might even be right.
She knows how to exit a car while revealing the maximum (she wears pants because it is November) without seeming cheap. It seems like an invitation though it is really a veiled, or rather unveiled, threat.
We sit in the newest and most fashionable restaurant in the capital of a poor country, where tiny amounts of food are served at a great price but it is rather sparsely attended. The rich have left town for the weekend.
She works at the craft of psychopathy with the ardour and commitment of a scholar and she is a very good scholar.
She is the classic psychopath but that is a tautology because all psychopaths are classic psychopaths. They all resemble each other like happy families, just like a pickpocket resembles Adolf Hitler. But they do not have the same level of skill. ‘I’m the best’, she says. Perhaps she is.
Someone long ago wrote a novel about her in which she was aptly described as 'Mephistopheles in a bikini'. Even at forty she would still look very good in a bikini (her breasts are silicone)and she is no less Mephistophelean but she has honed her skills and is constantly learning new ones. ‘I’ve matured a lot. I’ve got much better. Or much worse.’ A girlish giggle.
Charles Baudelaire said "Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself’ and this applies as much to evil geniuses as to the other kind. She thinks she is a genius, of course, and, actually, she might even be right.
She knows how to exit a car while revealing the maximum (she wears pants because it is November) without seeming cheap. It seems like an invitation though it is really a veiled, or rather unveiled, threat.
We sit in the newest and most fashionable restaurant in the capital of a poor country, where tiny amounts of food are served at a great price but it is rather sparsely attended. The rich have left town for the weekend.
‘On
your MySpace page I see you put as your motto ‘Everything happens to everyone
if there is time enough’. I couldn’t get that for a long time and then I
focused my brain and saw it was a threat. ‘You will do everything to everybody
if there is time enough.'
Laughter.
‘Was I the first to work that out?’
‘I think so. And by the way it applies to you too.’
And she means it of course. She is dangerous like a tiger.
She likes to be admired for any reason and is insatiably greedy for attention. But being admired for her professional skills, which she knows, but would never admit, are slight, is not so interesting as being admired for the occult reality of what she does. Work in the normal sense holds no interest for her, she holds in deep contempt, but she works very hard indeed at games. But this she only discusses with the two young psychopaths she has been mentoring for years and the partner in a Wall St law firm who mentored her. And with me, it seems, for the time being. Though she can’t help dropping hints to others. Too many.
She has been punished before for taking off her mask too often. Someone once wrote that novel about her and soon after she left her job and the country and changed her name.
She is not really interested in the truth, in an abstract way, which is the purpose of conversation, but very interested in the truth for pragmatic purposes and, by observing in her very calm, very clear way ,she knows a very great deal more of the truth about many aspects of life than hommes moyens sensual. I wonder if she really likes intellectual stimulation from me rather than from books. She might see it as a threat.
'He is a psychopath, too.'
She had only used that word with me once before and I had never used it with her. I was interested that she admitted to being one.
'So all three of your sons are?'
'Yes.'
'Oh you are very lucky but let’s say manipulator, it sounds nicer.'
'Yes, manipulator.'
'Are manipulators born or made?'
'Oh definitely born.'
Her mother I know was a very cruel parent
'Are you a better mother than she was?'
'Oh much better but I was a girl and you know it is different with mothers and girls.'
And she tells me about her childhood which must have been very painful, though I feel no pity and pity is what she most hates in all the world. Fortunately she spent most of her time with her grandmother ‘who was soft and by the time I was twelve I was basically independent of my mother. But times were different then.
This sounds possibly true but she took her two young sons out of school in New York and deposited them with her mother in a provincial town in Eastern Europe, while she fucked the famous in the capital city and for a year held down a well-paid job . The boys attended the local school where lessons were given in a language they at first hardly spoke.
‘My mother was very tough and very aggressive. I have all of that but I also have the soft skills. So I am better.’
And her soft skills are indeed very good. Charm but not too too much. Flirting like a nuclear submarine honing in on a target. A sonar system in her head. An ability to read almost everyone. Not quite everyone she said. Not people who hate her. She is irritated yet gratified that there are a few of those.
'I made a mistake when I said that you lack empathy. You have empathy but cold empathy not warm empathy.'
'Yes I do. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to read people and get inside them.'
Why were we spending the evening together when she knew so many people and her time here was short?
'You are a means to an end.'
‘Several ends because you always work on several levels.’
Yes I do.
I don’t think I found out what end she intended to mention. I should listen better as she does.
I told her I knew why – that she liked power over people and when her power wore off she liked renewing it. I mentioned that one of her exes who had carried a flame for her for years. ‘Last time I spoke to him he said you were a bitch. you should see him and inject some more poison.'
‘Well I wasn’t going to see him but maybe I will.’
She knows how to damage people and this the thing that gives her most satisfaction. 'Perhaps it is the revenge of an injured child, for she is still a child which makes her fun.' But I think she is right and that psychopaths are born not made.
'You told me that though you could manipulate anyone you liked working on people who are positive because you were a positive person. And though I know what you mean and you do have a lot of a sort of energy and vitality but you are not a positive person at all. You are negative. You are pure negation.
‘I am only negative to others. I’m not negative to myself’ – a triumphant smile. This is not really true.
‘Why do you think Christianity says blessed are the poor?’
‘I’ve no idea. Because they’re easy to manipulate?’
‘No the reason why in Christianity the poor are blessed is that they have nothing and so they know they are dependent on God. And you in your way are very close to if not to God then to your subconscious mind. Which is your intuition and destiny – you are very good at reading signs that tell you what you should do next.
‘Hitler did not believe in God but thought that all through his life destiny intervened to help him and it certainly did. I do not read what I call Hitler porn but I know for example that had his grandfather not unexpectedly returned to admit his father’s paternity he would have been called Schickelgruber which would have made his career much more difficult. And there are a lot of other things like that.’
She is listening with real attention to this, I notice.
‘For example I know how you got into tobacco’ (she was sleeping with someone) ‘but I think it was your destiny to be in tobacco. Tobacco is perfect for you – think how much more pleasure you get every day from working in tobacco than you would in say paint.
‘Yes or in arms. But you need security clearance for that and I’m not an American.’
‘You are a Darwinian.’
‘Yes of course. Darwinianism is a religion.’
‘ You believe in God, don’t you?’
‘Well I do believe in some force because I have so much to be grateful for.’
‘Please please please please don’t tell me you are a Christian.’
‘No but I do admire the Christian church .’
‘The way it manipulates people.’
‘Yes of course. And that’s important.’
I wish I had asked her what she thought about Jesus but instead I said I saw a resemblance between Him and her. I meant his antithesis, of course.
‘Because you are pure. You know its not possible for any of us to be completely good. Or completely rich. Even if you were the richest person in the world which you would like to be, it would still be possible to be richer. But it is quite possible to be completely poor. You just have to have nothing. And it is possible to be purely evil.
‘Was I the first to work that out?’
‘I think so. And by the way it applies to you too.’
And she means it of course. She is dangerous like a tiger.
She likes to be admired for any reason and is insatiably greedy for attention. But being admired for her professional skills, which she knows, but would never admit, are slight, is not so interesting as being admired for the occult reality of what she does. Work in the normal sense holds no interest for her, she holds in deep contempt, but she works very hard indeed at games. But this she only discusses with the two young psychopaths she has been mentoring for years and the partner in a Wall St law firm who mentored her. And with me, it seems, for the time being. Though she can’t help dropping hints to others. Too many.
She has been punished before for taking off her mask too often. Someone once wrote that novel about her and soon after she left her job and the country and changed her name.
She is not really interested in the truth, in an abstract way, which is the purpose of conversation, but very interested in the truth for pragmatic purposes and, by observing in her very calm, very clear way ,she knows a very great deal more of the truth about many aspects of life than hommes moyens sensual. I wonder if she really likes intellectual stimulation from me rather than from books. She might see it as a threat.
'He is a psychopath, too.'
She had only used that word with me once before and I had never used it with her. I was interested that she admitted to being one.
'So all three of your sons are?'
'Yes.'
'Oh you are very lucky but let’s say manipulator, it sounds nicer.'
'Yes, manipulator.'
'Are manipulators born or made?'
'Oh definitely born.'
Her mother I know was a very cruel parent
'Are you a better mother than she was?'
'Oh much better but I was a girl and you know it is different with mothers and girls.'
And she tells me about her childhood which must have been very painful, though I feel no pity and pity is what she most hates in all the world. Fortunately she spent most of her time with her grandmother ‘who was soft and by the time I was twelve I was basically independent of my mother. But times were different then.
This sounds possibly true but she took her two young sons out of school in New York and deposited them with her mother in a provincial town in Eastern Europe, while she fucked the famous in the capital city and for a year held down a well-paid job . The boys attended the local school where lessons were given in a language they at first hardly spoke.
‘My mother was very tough and very aggressive. I have all of that but I also have the soft skills. So I am better.’
And her soft skills are indeed very good. Charm but not too too much. Flirting like a nuclear submarine honing in on a target. A sonar system in her head. An ability to read almost everyone. Not quite everyone she said. Not people who hate her. She is irritated yet gratified that there are a few of those.
'I made a mistake when I said that you lack empathy. You have empathy but cold empathy not warm empathy.'
'Yes I do. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to read people and get inside them.'
Why were we spending the evening together when she knew so many people and her time here was short?
'You are a means to an end.'
‘Several ends because you always work on several levels.’
Yes I do.
I don’t think I found out what end she intended to mention. I should listen better as she does.
I told her I knew why – that she liked power over people and when her power wore off she liked renewing it. I mentioned that one of her exes who had carried a flame for her for years. ‘Last time I spoke to him he said you were a bitch. you should see him and inject some more poison.'
‘Well I wasn’t going to see him but maybe I will.’
She knows how to damage people and this the thing that gives her most satisfaction. 'Perhaps it is the revenge of an injured child, for she is still a child which makes her fun.' But I think she is right and that psychopaths are born not made.
'You told me that though you could manipulate anyone you liked working on people who are positive because you were a positive person. And though I know what you mean and you do have a lot of a sort of energy and vitality but you are not a positive person at all. You are negative. You are pure negation.
‘I am only negative to others. I’m not negative to myself’ – a triumphant smile. This is not really true.
‘Why do you think Christianity says blessed are the poor?’
‘I’ve no idea. Because they’re easy to manipulate?’
‘No the reason why in Christianity the poor are blessed is that they have nothing and so they know they are dependent on God. And you in your way are very close to if not to God then to your subconscious mind. Which is your intuition and destiny – you are very good at reading signs that tell you what you should do next.
‘Hitler did not believe in God but thought that all through his life destiny intervened to help him and it certainly did. I do not read what I call Hitler porn but I know for example that had his grandfather not unexpectedly returned to admit his father’s paternity he would have been called Schickelgruber which would have made his career much more difficult. And there are a lot of other things like that.’
She is listening with real attention to this, I notice.
‘For example I know how you got into tobacco’ (she was sleeping with someone) ‘but I think it was your destiny to be in tobacco. Tobacco is perfect for you – think how much more pleasure you get every day from working in tobacco than you would in say paint.
‘Yes or in arms. But you need security clearance for that and I’m not an American.’
‘You are a Darwinian.’
‘Yes of course. Darwinianism is a religion.’
‘ You believe in God, don’t you?’
‘Well I do believe in some force because I have so much to be grateful for.’
‘Please please please please don’t tell me you are a Christian.’
‘No but I do admire the Christian church .’
‘The way it manipulates people.’
‘Yes of course. And that’s important.’
I wish I had asked her what she thought about Jesus but instead I said I saw a resemblance between Him and her. I meant his antithesis, of course.
‘Because you are pure. You know its not possible for any of us to be completely good. Or completely rich. Even if you were the richest person in the world which you would like to be, it would still be possible to be richer. But it is quite possible to be completely poor. You just have to have nothing. And it is possible to be purely evil.
‘The Antichrist
is pure. Somewhere I saw a renaissance painting where the Antichrist is sitting
in his study, he is very beautiful and magnetic and his study is lined with
books and statues and painting. And only from the window do you see..’
‘Hell?’
‘No a scene of war and devastation and people being killed in various ways.’
‘You must write a book.’
She suddenly asks me ‘Do you want me to have your babies’?’
‘Yes.’
‘When?’
‘Now.’
‘Well we can’t hear or we’ll be chucked out.’
‘Yes unless we were very rich.’
She laughs and she eagerly tells me how she wants to collaborate on a novel together.
‘It’s about a girl. I am not saying it’s me. But a girl who sees a man at a party and knows immediately that he is completely evil. And they have a relationship and then the girl gets worried of what he might do to her and gets out of the relationship. Then the man dies. That didn’t happen.’
I know she went out with a mafia leader in her Italian period.
What name shall we give her?
Something with r in it because that sounds harsh.
And the heroine must win.
Of course.
We discuss books and she says that after Les Liaisons Dangereuses the other book she liked with the theme of evil was the Story of O.
Martin Amis? (I gave her Money.)
Oh I LOVE Martin Amis.
You are the woman of his dreams. Bosomy and evil. He would leave his second wife for you
Introduce me to him!
If you succeed in your intention to run the company from behind the scenes and run it well you will just be being a good international company person. That won’t give you satisfaction. Harold Macmillan said power is no fun unless you abuse it and Macmillan was a good prime minister, but you...
I am relaxing at the moment.
Recoiling to spring further.
Exactly. I am relaxing now but I shall spring much further.
This is not true. She has come to rest in a safe, senior job in big tobacco and an unnecessarily big house in the suburbs of a small, provincial American town. Unless of course she divorces her handsome house husband and marries money. She still has the looks for that but not the opportunities.
‘I want you to have fun but you have to be discreet. And your way to relax is to, you know, play games. Do you have the chance to, what shall I say, to frustrate, to thwart people’s careers?
Sure.
How do you do it? Via HR?
Oh no you don’t need HR. I give them tasks I know they are not able to do.
And these are always your ‘friends’?
Yees! she leans back gleefully cupping her knees in her hands. She is loving this conversation.
The end of the powers of evil, wherever we may place their origin, is world domination. But behind this outer desire for conquest there is a hidden, deeper lust for total destruction. The evil impulse looks for the death of all life, the corruption of all beauty and the perversion of all truth and justice.
The light of the demon-possessed individual with a yearning for absolute power consuming their soul is alluring and scintillating, its strength magnifying itself and deceiving its object so that its source lies unrevealed except to those of spiritual sight who can discern the emptiness of the chalice from which it emanates. ..some frighteningly destructive people seem to have had all the social ingredients for a happy, constructive life. They are called psychopaths, but this categorization does nothing to explain their character. It is they who are especially powerful mediums of destructive cosmic forces, and their power is related to their intelligence and their ability to communicate on a psychic level with other people.
‘Hell?’
‘No a scene of war and devastation and people being killed in various ways.’
‘You must write a book.’
She suddenly asks me ‘Do you want me to have your babies’?’
‘Yes.’
‘When?’
‘Now.’
‘Well we can’t hear or we’ll be chucked out.’
‘Yes unless we were very rich.’
She laughs and she eagerly tells me how she wants to collaborate on a novel together.
‘It’s about a girl. I am not saying it’s me. But a girl who sees a man at a party and knows immediately that he is completely evil. And they have a relationship and then the girl gets worried of what he might do to her and gets out of the relationship. Then the man dies. That didn’t happen.’
I know she went out with a mafia leader in her Italian period.
What name shall we give her?
Something with r in it because that sounds harsh.
And the heroine must win.
Of course.
We discuss books and she says that after Les Liaisons Dangereuses the other book she liked with the theme of evil was the Story of O.
Martin Amis? (I gave her Money.)
Oh I LOVE Martin Amis.
You are the woman of his dreams. Bosomy and evil. He would leave his second wife for you
Introduce me to him!
If you succeed in your intention to run the company from behind the scenes and run it well you will just be being a good international company person. That won’t give you satisfaction. Harold Macmillan said power is no fun unless you abuse it and Macmillan was a good prime minister, but you...
I am relaxing at the moment.
Recoiling to spring further.
Exactly. I am relaxing now but I shall spring much further.
This is not true. She has come to rest in a safe, senior job in big tobacco and an unnecessarily big house in the suburbs of a small, provincial American town. Unless of course she divorces her handsome house husband and marries money. She still has the looks for that but not the opportunities.
‘I want you to have fun but you have to be discreet. And your way to relax is to, you know, play games. Do you have the chance to, what shall I say, to frustrate, to thwart people’s careers?
Sure.
How do you do it? Via HR?
Oh no you don’t need HR. I give them tasks I know they are not able to do.
And these are always your ‘friends’?
Yees! she leans back gleefully cupping her knees in her hands. She is loving this conversation.
The end of the powers of evil, wherever we may place their origin, is world domination. But behind this outer desire for conquest there is a hidden, deeper lust for total destruction. The evil impulse looks for the death of all life, the corruption of all beauty and the perversion of all truth and justice.
The light of the demon-possessed individual with a yearning for absolute power consuming their soul is alluring and scintillating, its strength magnifying itself and deceiving its object so that its source lies unrevealed except to those of spiritual sight who can discern the emptiness of the chalice from which it emanates. ..some frighteningly destructive people seem to have had all the social ingredients for a happy, constructive life. They are called psychopaths, but this categorization does nothing to explain their character. It is they who are especially powerful mediums of destructive cosmic forces, and their power is related to their intelligence and their ability to communicate on a psychic level with other people.




