……over the edge

Dr Robert Hare’s p.c.l.r. checklist, psychopathic behaviour defined by checklist:

1. Glibness / Superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Need for stimulation / proneness to boredom
4. Pathological lying
5. Cunning / Manipulative
6. Lack of remorse / guilt
7. Shallow effect
8. Callous / Lack of empathy
9. Parasitic lifestyle
10. Poor behavioural control
11. Promiscuous sexual behaviour
12. Early behavioural problems
13. Lack of realistic long-term goals
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsibility
16. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
17. Many short term marital relations
18. Juvenile delinquency
19. Revocation of conditional release
20. Criminal versatility.

It dawned on me that many successful friends of mine fit most of these categories, then a TV documentary reassured me by saying that this list applies to most of the Captains of Industry and the Bankers who recently tore up the worlds stability ! It seems to be success requires a certain measure of psychopathic insanity ?