Little Drummer Girl, Psychopathy & Peace

Watching the BBC adaptation of John Le Carre's Little Drummer Girl helped developed an idea about psychopathy.

So we are told that the psychopath is a unique species of human that has profound lack of empathy. They view other people as shells with no-one inside and as a result other people are simply tools of the psychopaths world.

But i am suspicious of anything which is so black and white. It is almost psychopathic itself to absolutely classify a class of humans as inhumane. We are in Nazi territory here where they classified whole classes of people as inferior.

In Little Drummer Girl we have a character who is tricked into taking up a deep spying role for the Zionists against the Palestianian terrorists (not sure which group). In her deep role she essentially takes up the role of a trainee terrorist as deep as you can go, and the question was whether she would keep acting or start to play for real. During the course of the program we discover that the terrorists are real flesh and blood humans, and we hear about the atrocities they suffered at the hands of the Zionists. We are left in no doubt that both sides have a valid cause. At the end we have an exchange with the terrorist target where she confirms that unlike the Zionists or Palestians she does not have a cause and is simply acting. But in the end, despte all this, she remains true to her role and pulls out and continues working for the Zionists. All the Palestinian terrorists she was working with are killed.

Now this ability to work for one side, without regard for the lives of teh other side is exactly psychopathy. Perhaps I realise psychopathy is an essential part of human make up. We need it in order to form societies. In order to hold our own people close or superior, we must become indifferent to the interests of other people. She was recruited by the Zionists so she remained loyal and carried on working for the Zionists with apparent no deep feeling for the other side.

So perhaps the Psychopath is only special in that they have a mutation which means that instead of only being psychopathic to one side, they become psychopathic to all sides.

By contrast then what I term a Human does not have any psychopathy. If Little Drummer Girl was a human, she would have started to see the nature of the conflict as multi-dimensional with people on all sides and she would not have been able to take sides. Most people are actually not humans yet, I call them animals, because they are easily tricked, like the Little Drummer Girl, into taking a side.

But imagine a world where people made the full move to Humanity. Where people could not act with prejudice and disregard for the "other side". Where all lives mattered. No one would ever be able to level a gun at another persons head, even if they disagreed with them, because they would understand that this other person had feeling and wishes identical to their own.

In religious terminology God made all people in His image. If we kill any and we are killing God's own creations. We barely understand ourselves, how much less do we understand God, and yet some think they are in a position to exterminate another of His most extra-ordinary creation? Killing is clearly driven by the greatest delusion. The fact that Muslims and Jews, that in general Arabs have been killing each other for millennia is just testament to their collective ignorance, and in fact the ignorance of the books they follow which contain historical accounts, fake prophesies, and nonsense all mixed up with the genuine words of God that no man has a chance of being clear of the Truth. That Muslims think that the Koran was dictated to Mohammad in a cave by an Arch-Angel, and yet contains so much in common with the existing Jewish books around at the time is plainly ridiculous. It would be like a author suddenly emerging from a cave with Harry Potter, having changed the names a bit and mixed the stories of a little, and claim that they were the true author. A little realism and attempting to work out what God's real message is might be a way forward for these people. God most definitely did not tell them to exterminate each other. But of course the West is no better with an even bigger body count behind its ignorant armies and politicians.

In summary then we are all psychopaths, just some more psychopathic than others. But the goal is to rid ourselves of psychopathy and be able to respect all sides with love.

And so same question as in previous blogs. So what do you do if you have a gun trained at the head of a terrorist who is about to blow themselves up? Well what would the terrorist do? Do that. This way at least all the killers will annihilate themselves, and leave the peaceful people to carry the future.