Last year read Adam Kotsko’s “Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide To Late Capitalist Television” where he describes real-life sociopaths as pitiable creatures, often “victims of severe abuse, they are bereft of all human connection, unable to tell truth from lies, charming and manipulative for a few minutes at most but with no real ability to formulate meaningful goals”. He’ll mirror this agains what he termed the fantasy socipath as portrayed on TV, Film and in our urban imaginations, saying, “The contemporary fantasy of sociopathy picks and chooses from those characteristics, emphasizing the lack of moral intuition, human empathy, and emotional connection. Far from being the obstacles they would be in real life, these characteristics are what enable the fantasy sociopath to be so amazingly successful.”1

Reading Barbara O’Brien’s work about her schizophrenic break Operators and Things she describes what led up to it, telling us about the…