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“We are ruled by psychopaths.”

CJ did not coin that phrase, but he repeats it often, and he means it both literally & emphatically. This may sound crazy to many, but that perception is often based on a very mistaken understanding of what the term ‘psychopath’ really means.

Join CJ on a deep dive into the true nature of psychopaths, how to spot them, how they operate, & why it’s a very reasonable hypothesis to suspect that psychopaths are very disproportionately represented among corporate oligarchs, politicians, & government officials.

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• Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert Hare
• Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak & Robert Hare

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In this episode, CJ revisits DHP Episode 34, “The Iron Law of Oligarchy,” from 2014, in preparation for an upcoming mini-series on oligarchy & CJ’s argument that modern democracy is just oligarchy with extra steps.

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• A little bit about German sociologist Robert Michels, who first described this law
• The Iron Law of Oligarchy as described by Michels in his early-20th century book Political Parties
• The Iron Law of Oligarchy in other contexts
• Some noteworthy exceptions to the Iron Law that various scholars have found, including the International Typographical Union, the New Left student movement of the 1960s, ancient Athens, and Wikipedia

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