A post-hoc that would explain two things
Here's a post-hoc based on a few definite facts. Post-hocs are always dubious, but this one would explain two big changes that are otherwise totally mysterious.
Fact 1. All human traits, talents and tendencies are innate and permanent.
Fact 2. Psychopaths are a permanent part of the population, most likely a stable proportion.
Fact 3. In the 1990s we deleted FDR's laws that formerly constrained Share Value demons.
Fact 4. ALSO in the 1990s, ordinary crime dropped,
first in NYC and then most other places.
We've never found a satisfactory explanation for Fact 4. Giuliani took credit for it, but the connection didn't really make sense. Increased enforcement of 'broken window' offenses didn't seem to account for the big change everywhere.
Post-hoc 1: See where this leads? The psychopaths who had formerly been managing "ordinary" crime behind the scenes moved into bigger Share Value crime now that it was permitted and celebrated. Psychopaths are INSATIABLE and always aim for the ABSOLUTE TOP where they can OBLITERATE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
NORMAL PEOPLE WANT SECURITY. PSYCHOPATHS WANT FREEDOM.
Post-hoc 2: And then many psychopaths moved into government, sometimes directly from the Share Value world (eg Trump and Macron and Pritzker), sometimes as chosen puppets of the Share Value Demons. I'm thinking here of Thrill Killer Inslee, a puppet of Thrill Killer Bezos; and Genocidist Newsom, a tool of Genocidist Tim Cook.
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