Ep. 0284: We Are Ruled By Psychopaths, Part 2

The Dangerous History Podcast

CJ

Education, History, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As CJ continues to struggle to navigate his family’s ongoing difficulties, he FINALLY managed to record a new DHP episode.

This is a follow-up to the previous DHP episode (#283 “We Are Ruled by Psychopaths”), in which he delves into some topics not covered much, if at all, in that episode, including but not limited to: the difficulty of defining ‘psychopath vs. sociopath,’ reasons that non-psychopathic people might in some situations behave very similarly to a psychopath, the ‘Lucifer effect,’ how institutions tend toward psychopathic behavior, and more.

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0:00.0	Howdy, dear listeners, this is C.J. Your guerrilla scholar warrior, one-man revolution,
0:08.8	and Renaissance man in this dark and ever-darkening age. And yes, I still live, but good Lord,
0:19.2	has it been a continuing trial for me.
0:23.0	This episode is going to be a follow-up to my big episode on psychopathy, which was the last
0:32.9	DHP episode I put out before this one, and it was, you know, over a month ago. And I've been
0:39.5	relatively quiet other than, you know, angrily posting and sarcastically posting primarily
0:45.0	on Twitter. But there were a number of things that I didn't mention in my episode about
0:52.6	the psychopaths who rule us that either, you know, I kind of forgot to,
0:58.8	just because I forgot to stick them in my notes, or in some cases they were things that I didn't
1:03.6	get to just for the sake of time, because that episode was already, you know, pretty big.
1:09.3	And so there were several things I wanted to cover in there
1:13.0	that I ultimately decided to leave out when I was making it for the sake of time. But I believe
1:17.9	those things are enough worth mentioning that I decided to do this follow-up episode. So that's what
1:24.5	this is going to be. If the audio sounds, you know, different from my typical ones,
1:28.5	it's because I am in the car.
1:31.2	Yes, I am driving in the Silver Bullet,
1:33.7	and I'm not at the moment able to record in my home.
1:40.1	So I have to do some driving today on the day I'm recording this, and so I realized if I was going to get a new D.HP episode out anytime soon, it would have to be a Silver Bullet episode recorded as I'm driving.
1:57.2	First, a little update, and if you're a psychopathic listener who has zero empathy for me and doesn't really care and just wants me to fill your mind with historical information, feel free to skip ahead to the next insert of music, but assuming you are a non-psychopath listener and you actually, at least on some
2:19.2	level, care about me as a human being and all that, I just want to say that unfortunately,
2:25.7	so far, 2026 has not been an improvement for me and my family over 2025 and in some ways some things have been getting worse.
2:36.9	So still struggling very hard. Of course, back in December, my mom and my wife both had to go
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