ABSTRACT
In Age of Psychopathy, the chapter emphasizes psychopathic manipulation of psychotic anxieties. Political leaders evoked annihilation dread in the service of presumed self-interest, survival, and power. The cost of actual human life in this all too real fantasy script was sacrificed to egocentric-nationalistic redress of injury for 9/11, although Iraq was not a main player in the latter. Group and individual psychopathy often go together and reinforce each other. In Toxic Nourishment, the chapter traces the processes in which the child or baby takes in emotional toxins fused with nourishment. The popularity of films about mad scientists attempting to control the world is one instance of how people vibrate to psychic underpinnings. All capacities play a role along the way in different contexts in varied forms. Wilfred Bion felt a statue should be made in their honor, a thrust forward of ambition and scientific greed in face of superstition.
