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  • lAY oFF tHE cOKE aND sMOKE sOME wEED!!!! BETTER YET.... FALL IN LOVE.....

  • Owen Wilson played in The Royal Tenenbaums 2001. In this Movie his best friend Richie (his Brother Luke) attempts suicide. (see - Owen Wilson's suicide attempt mirrored plot in his movie). In 2007 Owen Wilson attempted suicide - What made him do it? COULD it Be an MK Ultra Mind Control program - Using this here video depicting Owen Wilson as a cybernetic robot.. as the transformation trigger. And further what would make these MK Ultra, Dr. Green, jolyon West types do it? Can We Say..Satan?? Hm?

  • I don't know if John Lennon covered this, 2 sure signs and symptoms are the tell-tail hand gestures of the Nazi Salute & the Texas Longhorn Football Team handsign. See, Google image: football Texas horns hand Longhorns Beast Longhorns Sign - - (google satanic hand symbols ) There's the tell-tail, Amerikkka Anti-Intelectual Baseball Nazi Salute; All Together Now! Hiel Baseball !! Baseball Uber Als ! Google image George Yankee

  • @LovinAlPacino I suppose.. I do that mostly to see what they are like, can't read character at all. Also, I can't care about anothers personality anyway.

  • my mirror cells light up when I hear this guy talk. He has the same speech dysfunctional and I can feel the uneasy place in my brain where the signalling isn't getting through. I wish I new what that was.

  • LOL entertaining commercial. Love Jon Ronson's work.

  • Jon doesn't sound this gay when you read his books. 

  • I'm a psychopath on modern warfare3

  • everybody's psychopath once in awhile.

  • The pin-stripe psycho looks/reminds me of Anders Behring Breivik, another psy...piece of *bleep*!

  • Great book Jon.

  • you are fucking psycho

  • Anyone else think most of the comments are from psychopaths?

  • he looks like a fucken psycho path!!!

  • It's all a fucking shameless plug for your book? You dirty son of a bitch.

  • I'm almost 100% sure that BOTH of my parents are psychopaths.. is there any evidence that they attract each other

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  • Oh screw it! We're all psychopaths!

  • I like the 'spotter' bit, for many years I've been an 'Aspergers' spotter, a 'Control Freak spotter', a 'Underhanded Manipulator' spotter and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) spotter, a Someday Syndrome' spotter & now I'm also a 'Psychopath Spotter'.. I like labels, how do you know if a cake is a lemon cake or a mederia cake if you don't lable it. Gosh it can get lonely be the only 'normal' person in the world. (lol).

  • Put this guy in a room with PAul and Ringo.

  • He...kind of looks like John Lennon.

  • Thomas Sheridan has written a couple of books about psychopaths and made lots of videos about them. When you see how Sheridan approaches the subject compared to Ronson you then understand that what Ronson is doing with this video and his book is playing down the dangers of psychopathology for his corporate paymasters in big media. Thomas Sheridan is the only non-academic researcher into this subject who nails it perfectly and with a lot of sincere empathy for the victims.

  • I just got psychopathic while watching it.

  • OMG HARRY POTTER! Oh no wait....

  • I love this video. I watch it everyday just before I do my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now.

  • @dennypants Are you.... a psychopath? (;

  • @dennypants I get it Patrick.

  • @dennypants Marcus Halberstram, is that you?

    Its me Paul, Paul Allen

  • @e1nn ur highly paranoid i should no cause i am as well

  • My top 3 books of all time. Quick read too. I love it!!

  • Wow, I thought John Lennon got killed. I am a HUGE FAN JOHN!!!! He certainly didn't age gracefully. Oh well, we all get old.

  • Hare's psychopathy checklist looks pretty much like a narcissistic personality with a bit of underhand or aggressive behaviour stitched on.

  • getting that tooth fixed would help him a lot.

  • All ideas and areas of discussion relating to the subject matter brushed aside in favour of commenting on the appearance of someone's teeth. Superficial, no?

  • The first sign of a psychopath is a person who focuses on others' physical appearance above all else, e.g. the teeth, or hair.

  • hahahahahahhahaha

  • I thought John Lennon was dead

  • I can't stop staring at his teeth

  • @FantisyLand I am disgusted by this man. I would chop his head with no regrets.

  • @Twiztidninjas long story short, Psychopaths should be teaching Psychopaths instead of inferior minds trying to fix us and change what is a gift into something common and primitive.

    Imagine what my mind could be capable of if i was taught by someone like me instead of ignored and set aside.

    Violent psychopaths are the ones who did not learn to use reason to compensate for a conscience.

    You would not kill an animal because you would feel remorse, i would not because i gain nothing from the act.

  • @Twiztidninjas Do you consider yourself to be a psychopath? Or do you think it's more likely you just reject that which most people unthinkingly consider "moral", which is based around ego massage and pity ethics?

    Did you try this test? I think it might give you a good insight as to the extent of your psychopathology.

    Far be it from me to say, but I'd urge not trying to escape their labeling by adopting other labels.

    /watch?v=1l0uzuOuFy

  • @Twiztidninjas

    "my IQ is 164, above 95% of people in the world".

    ......And yet here you are on Youtube.

    (Where all the worlds armchair geniuses, kung fu masters and ladies men hang out)

    Telling people that you are their intellectual superior.

    Just like the 95% of dumb-asses on youtube.

  • @HLecterPHD like you

  • @neilzep

    durr like you stupid face.

  • Why not use actors rather than cross eyes CGI people? Surely that was more expensive to produce.

  • By psychopaths you mean douchebags...

  • His dentist was a psychopath.

  • @adiclm29 LMFAO!!!!!!!

  • @adiclm29 Actually, His dentist was Stevie Wonder.

  • Almost everyone I know is a psychopath. No fun people.

  • the first sign was that he was wearing a pin stripe suit hahhahahahha... anyone who believes this crap deserves to think everyone is a psychopath

  • grandiose sense of self worth?

    son of god is quite the claim.

    therefore was jesus a psycho path?

  • Its a good (audio) book although it does sound like Julian Clarey is narrating it!

  • sounds like the music from the Clue DVD game.

  • Wait, wait... hold the fuck on... How can you faking being crazy be an act of craziness!!! WTF!!!

  • iam a psychopath and i can tell you, iam not into pin striped suits.At All!!!

  • please no discrimination here..

  • matthew mcconaughey meets john lennon

  • if matthew mcconaughey were an ugly brit

  • that shit cray

  • "Faking your brain going wrong can qualify as evidence that our brain has gone wrong." What if they do it for the purpose of fraud, such as social security disability fraud?

  • well one of my family members are a psycopath , he is pretty unreasonable with if you dont agree with him and see things hes way. And he will take advantage of you if he spots weakness.

    But he can be fun to chat with also. And he is pretty hard working , he whips himself just as hard as hes workers. He can finnish work when all the hirelings has had enough for one day. Off course running hes business as sweatshop means people has had enough after 1 year. Im just happy he didnt go for politics.

  • @Jonzen77 He's a "normal" person from that description

    People should look up Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, these are the personality disorders that people talk of when they think "psychopaths".

    I also want to ask you people a question, "What is empathy for you?", it is just a word, empathy is personal and variates from person to person.

    Psychopath is just another term to throw at people, like "idiot, moron, cold-hearted idiot etc."

  • And just for the record, yes i realise why people seem to have this general fear towards psychopaths and i understand that is because your emotions prohibit you from accepting things that are different than you, in this case i think differently than most people, therefore i am mentally ill.

    This is just one example of how a psychopath is more suited to this society than normal people are.

  • Why are we perceived as mentally ill and given the name "Psychopaths" for the way we think.

    How do you know your way of thinking is any better?

    There are plenty of non "Psychopaths" who are very well... disturbing individuals, does this mean i can class all you "Normal" people as mentally ill and class you as "Nonpsychopaths"

    Get a new hobby, your current one is offensive.

  • psychopaths are jews at least the morals we follow were made by psychopaths

  • Actually just sounds like Narcissistic personality disorder, which is to be removed from DSM.

    How do you determine of someone is unemotional? or lack empathy? We all react differently to different things.

    "Psychopathy" is wrong and doesn't even exist in DSM any more.

  • 1 in 25. Get you facts right. They're crooked and dirty, like your teeth.

  • Cool Story Bro !

  • ZIONIST SHIT PUSHER

  • Funny that his computer avatar, looks nothing like him in real life LOL!

  • "My psychopathic spotting powers did something to my head."

    Lmao but cool little clip

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  • thumbs this up: People, after you watch this video do not scroll down to comments (besides the top ones). "youtube community" will take down your IQ before you know it. Idiots.

  • I think my sims are a bunch of psychopaths

  • Than Obama is a psycho too.

  • so if these are characteristics of psychopaths, then everything a jew is and says and becomes from it's ideas is psychopath.

  • jews?

  • this guy seems pretty psychopathic to me :p

  • My boss is a psychopath. She talks to her workers like they were mental midgets. Her particular form of control is a childish need for attention to assuage her massive insecurities.Almost every sentence begins with "I."

  • @ThePatriotMuckraker That doesn't imply she's a psychopath at all.

    Only that she has control, anxiety and probably self esteem issues, and she needs to assert herself aggressively

    .

    Most psychopaths don't have anxiety issues. They immediately act on their very weak impulses without much conflict.

    You also wouldn't know they were controlling you. You'd only know that it felt wrong submitting to them, but wouldn't precisely understand why.

    Finally, you wouldn't be aware of her insecurities at all.

  • Oh Jon, what on earth is this video?

  • Brilliant little teaser. Think I'll pick up the book

  • What about psychopaths in the media? Notice how they don't talk about that much.I mean take war correspondents for instance, they can see the worst horrors mankind can muster yet stay totally unmoved - or worry about their make up - or give you that plastic superficial smile. Most of us - if we spent our lives travelling from one warzone to the next - would suffer a complete nervous breakdown but these people don't bat an eyelid. So are they world weary hacks or cold blooded adrenaline junkies?

  • moving your mouth independent of your face that's psychopathic

    LOL

  • I don't know why I sat here and watched this random video.

  • This video is really fucking weird.

  • Is it me or does THIS guy have the deadest psychopath eyes you've ever seen?

  • If John Lennon and Lee Mack had a kid together...

  • I agree with some of these ideas partially, but I have to say, the guy who made this video is a fucking moron.

  • 'An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths'

    well, duh.

    capitalism etc reducing people & nature to figures and stats, discussing things in abstract terms economically = psychotic sociopathic system.

    pretending to be able to define 'sane' within such a context, while ignoring the truth of said context = psychotic & evil.

  • @Seryoism But why would he be afraid of humans? They are weak, unlike himself. And when disabled, you are even weaker.

  • What a great clip. True; most likely.

  • he looks like a pyschopath

  • @totallyprudent49 we all crazy in some ways

  • @totallyprudent49 wohl eher schizophren... Psychopathen sieht man nicht an, dass sie Psychopathen sind...

  • @Seryoism But why would the psychopath care for her not having any defect and preferred her disabled?

  • Alright mate whatever helps you sleep at night..

  • this guy seriously needs to fix his teeth

  • @satannabis420 - opinions like that are a form of psychosis - you pay attention to something that people only bother about because comsumer society (which is psychotic) has made them think of it as important, to the extent you actually commented on it - and even more disturbingly got some thumbs.

    teeth only need fixing if they're decayed or infected.

  • @satannabis420 They dont care about that stuff in the UK.

  • @satannabis420 Who cares? You shouldn't.

  • @satannabis420 and get a haircut.

  • @satannabis420 What do you expect? Hes British; they're known for their bad teeth :P

  • @satannabis420 Who cares what his teeth look like? How is that important to what the man is saying?

  • @satannabis420 well hes english soooo lol jk

  • @satannabis420 - He's British...in his country, he's a Crest toothpaste model.

  • @satannabis420 Yea well, maybe he just doesn't care.

  • @satannabis420 Nah he's british

  • @satannabis420 And a comb wouldn't hurt him, either.

  • ahh i heard this on this american life! it was fascinating

  • John Lennon is looking pretty terrible nowadays

  • He reminds of that guy from courage the cowardly dog...the one who keeps shaving courage...Naaaaaauuuughtyy...

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  • u ll never find the real psychopaths...but they ll find you instead muahahahah :P

  • when I take those tests, I get sociopath. I'm not joking. I can't feel anything, so it's only natural. I could kill a million billion souls and not care, but it's effort; that's why I don't do it. I'm not motivated to hurt people.

  • crackhead

  • the guy in this video is a psychopath

  • Yes. Psychopaths who believe in the O.C.T. of 9/11, like Jon Ronson.

  • reducing to zero or dehumanizing people is a psychopath trait also indeed

  • but most of the time people with my condition are different....they are not violent...it pains me and graces me to even say it....thats what it means....i get pleasure out of it, you can call it a "troll" thats desired in such modern times...im perfact at the craft of pyscopathy...ithe very point is that i get something for what i put in..plain and simple...we can sympathise, even cry...but the emotions are not our own nomatter what...it is all for show...besides if nobody sees? whats the point

  • this is the real psychopath test....can you actually feel empathy for another? can you love your mother and walk away the next day if you have no need? i can do this....this is because i do not understand how others feel i immagine and dwell how they feel as a replacement for feelings i know i should have...and i turn them into anger...that is what it means to be a violent psychopath...to hate and love yourself only and care only what you think over others

  • @gorlist187 I similarly feel that I sort of partially put on an act to empathise with people and that I try to always please someone as much as I can almost subconsciously, it was interesting what you said about sympathising for people when they are there. I also don't think too much about others on my own in terms of emotion. The difference between you and me is that I feel like a twat for being that way. I think we are similar in that we probably wouldn't do something cold if tested.

  • @Redflowers9 i used to feel bad for being that way but after a while i suppose you slowly stop giving a shit...i dont remember the last time that bothered me...but yeah, people become "out of sight out of mind" seems odd

  • @gorlist187 My grandmother appears very friendly but she always tries to make out that she's a saint in everything she says and does to the point that it seems sickly. She subtly dishonest to the degree that you can never pin her down for anything but you can only ask her in your head how she just goes about people as if it's like mechanics...

    For her it seems more like a subconscious desire to manipulate and break so it's like she has unnatural amount of ego and emotional energy for her age.

  • Is that the Sims3 !!???

  • he miss the cops

  • I think politicians are less likely than CEOs to be psychopaths, because they are under too much scrutiny. We're not talking about little office gossip rings. We're talking about large, well-funded and methodical efforts by the media and rivals to dig up any dirt they can on a politician. Psychopaths have poor self-control, and thus tend to have too many skeletons in their closet to hide. No amount of brilliant bullshitting can prevent them from eventually being discovered.

  • @LordBifford Well you should probably do a little research into bill clinton phsyc anylises. You'd be surprised how stories things can be skewed even if the truth is accessible.

  • More like 1 in 10 men, 1 in 100 women.

  • @cataubawoman Are you kidding?

  • @wasp9 Unfortunately, no. It is estimated that 1% of the female population are sociopaths and at least 5%, but they think 10%, of the male population are sociopaths. Not all sociopaths will be psychopaths - some will just be con-men or those friends that lie and use you, but psychopaths are sociopaths who just went slightly farther, but it is the same type of person, just different actions. I hope that made some sense...

  • @cataubawoman i came to that very conclusion my self a while ago. and going by history, i would say most of the ancient "kings and queens" were definitely psychopaths. to day we call them "politicians".

  • @cataubawoman The % of each sex that lacks a conscience is probably the same. If a psychopathic woman manipulates a man to murder someone, as one tried to with me, the man may be caught & considered a psychopath, while the woman may go undetected. Most psychopaths murder no-one, are never diagnosed & very many are women.

  • @RobMackenzie There may be many undetected psychopaths of both sexes, but there are definitely more male than female. If a psychopath manipulated you into committing a crime, noone would label you a psychopath. There is a test that is given called Hare's Psycopathy Checklist. If you did not meet a lot of those criteria, you would not be considered a psychopath even if you killed someone. I'm sorry for what you went through - unfortunately common to be their victims...

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  • @cataubawoman I tested negative but she was positive on Hare's Checklist. I committed no crime. She tried to manipulate me into murdering someone so she'd gain extra inheritance & defrauded me over years in an organised con using her trust fund as bait, leaving my finances, career & emotions ruined in the years since.

    They think anyone would do evil as they do but normal people aren't smart enough, so it's not about good Vs evil, to them it's intelligent people (them) Vs us idiots

  • @cataubawoman Psychopaths think they have an advantage (& they do for evil) normal people are fools & there's no reason for them to seek mental help, so most go undiagnosed.

    I've read women claim more men are psychopaths, but what's your evidence to say it's 10 times more?

    I see the physical advantage causing more male murderers, however supposedly about 3/4 of psychopaths murder no-one, but ruin victims lives in other ways. Surely those 3/4 would be more equally male & female?

  • This video has gave me a very enlightening perspective about myself

  • i dont get this

  • Sound bite 3;50-4;01 is right on the money....Well Done

  • I loev this guy! 

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  • is this john lennon??

  • Jon Ronson is no Thomas Sheridan.

  • Well fuck.

  • How do you win against ANY grand master chess champion?

    only a psychopath can answer this.

  • @alvisc2002

    Bahahahaahaha, I love your comment for some reason.

  • This video is a complete insult to anybody's intelligence. Is this aimed for 5 year olds?

  • @xnwn no and its not an insult.

  • @maxgunn555 It was rhetorical and the video still remains stupid. 

  • @xnwn rhetoric is inherently stupid btw.

  • @maxgunn555 That would be a baseless argument since you just make that statement out of your butt.

  • @xnwn no i actually didn't if you knew anything... rhetoric was a valued intellectual study back in the greek times and not so much now in our more advanced times. rhetoric is simply a way to win an argument without proving an argument. ie convincing stupid people to believe what you are telling them ie think it is true so you can stfu. and thus only stupid people like you feel the need to make stupid comments like is this video aimed at 5 year olds. get smart.

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  • @maxgunn555 Still baseless, man. You're the one who needs to prove something by arguing with some youtuber. I think the video is stupid. It dumbs down its content by thinking that it needed stupid 3d characters with overexaggerated movements to gain our amusement. Highly unfunny and it's my opinion so you can shut it.

  • @xnwn arguing? i answered simply to your first comment. i stated what i've learnt about rhetoric. you then insulted me so then i gave you some explanation for my statement. 'it's my opinion so you can shut it' - wow you're a douche and a fucktard if you're alloewd you're opinion then presumably i'm allowed mine so don't tell me to shut up. you simply misunderstand the video: the cartooniness/exageration is meant to be more disturbing and weird to accompany the author than amusing or explanative.

  • @maxgunn555 I only insulted because you made an assumption about me from a small youtube comment and then generalizing me into a group of "stupid people." Jesus, man can you get any more hypocritical.

  • @xnwn only idiots talk about hypocrisy. ones actions aren't related to an argument so please try to think more critically. AND you did insult me first anything after was reactionary on my part... giving zero explanation to an argumant and then saying the other person made that statement (you were replying to) out of their ass is an insult. fool. you still havent given any argument against hte rhetoric view i have yet you think your right and it's baseless so yes tdthat must be stupid.

  • Pleasant surprise at the end.

    As you can see by all the comments below, psychopath hunting, labeling, and accusing has become very popular these days.

    I love how people go against their own supposed beliefs constantly.

    I have come to suspect they are simply too stupid to grasp what they themselves "think"

    Fuck humans.

  • all you have to do is ask them about cost benefit analysis.

    it's as simple as that. a sociopath/psychopth believes in/considers the concept of cost benefit analysis. whereas a human being does not.

    ie. lets say it costs $10,000,000 to put a metal plate around the gas tank of a ford pinto. and lets say that it costs $50,000 to pay off families who's chldren died in rear end collisions where the ford pinto gas tank exploded.

    would you spend $10,000,000 to do the recall? yes or no.

  • @alvisc2002

    This may be why psychopaths are heavily overrepresented in politics and in corporations.

  • @alvisc2002 AH HA, i smell a trick question

  • This video is so fucking stupid it seemed almost comical with its animated apperance .. this was no