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" ... If you haven’t read it yet, Dr. Martha Stout, of the Harvard Medical School, has written an interesting book, The Sociopath Next Door. In her book, she declares that four percent of the world’s population are sociopaths. That’s one out of every 25 people, worldwide, who have no conscience, no sense of right or wrong, no empathy—but a dangerous ability to mimic emotion and empathy as a means of ingratiating themselves and manipulating others for their benefit or amusement. My great friend Kip Meacham, a regional entrepreneur, referred to one such individual as “the world’s only living heart donor”. Again, thankfully, we were laughing about a situation we could gratefully observe in past tense. ... "
" ... Maybe it was a cultural reaction to it. But I think that more telling is who John Wayne Gacy was and what he was trying to do. He was ingratiating himself into powerful social and political circles in the seventies. He knew there was a way to grow his business and to acquire clout and influence. And that certainly helped him. It helped him find his lawyer, Sam L. Amirante, who was on the Norwood Park Township Lighting Committee, which was an extension of the political machine in Chicago. Gacy knew that by being a part of the circles and of those ecosystems, that he would be regarded in a different way. One thing that always fascinated me about that was that when Gacy was first arrested, Robert Martwick Senior - whose son Robert Martwick Jr. is still a very powerful political figure in Illinois - at the time initially did a TV interview vouching for Gacy. [He was] saying there's no way this person would be responsible for these things that we're hearing. He very quickly corrected course. You have to wonder - what did he know or not know? Did somebody tell him to correct course? It again raises all these questions that I don't have the answers to because people wouldn’t speak to them or some of these people are no longer living. But I hope that the series raises all these questions, and if there are people with answers out there, they start to come forward, or they say something so that history can be recorded accurately. ... "
" ... Plus, he has been personable with his players and ingratiating with the press, by being neither condescending nor flip; he actually gives the appearance of listening to questions and attempting to formulate an informative answer. Not all managers will take the time to do this. ... "
" ... Pretending to be injured has two possible applications. In the first, the enemy is lulled into relaxing his guard since he no longer considers you to be an immediate threat. The second is a way of ingratiating yourself to your enemy by pretending the injury was caused by a mutual enemy. (Turning an enemy's compassion against him.) ... "