Hello all Americans, Swiss, South Koreans and most Europeans who believe in global capitalism and its beneficial effect on society. You that believe in free competition and that the technology created by technology giants and large international corporations will save us from environmental collapse, the melting of the earth’s white crown of frozen water, pandemics, and the hospital crises in many countries.

Certainly, capitalist competition and the money system have created jobs and made it possible to develop inventions that have been very useful to humanity, such as medicines, good communication options, telephony, mobile networks and the internet. Yes, not least monumental buildings that seem impressive in their ostentatious splendor.

Switzerland is a beautiful country.

That we all know for sure! And Switzerland has many tourists every year, not least mountaineers. Just look at the photos. But the country has other attractions as well, besides very nice citizens. It’s a tax paradise for the rich, from all over the world, so the poor very rich people can evade contributing with their tax money in their native country.

There is always a national state behind the success of private innovation.

So if you look more closely at free competition and the free global monetary market, only a small part of our modern world would have been developed, if state institutions and tax-based funding had not stood behind the basic research that has made the internet, PC technology, tablets, touch -screens, modern cell-phone innovations.

All this government-funded basic research has been handed over for free to the private telecom and pharmaceutical giants by ordinary relatively low-paid taxpayers in the US and the other countries I’ve mentioned. These have then built on this costly preparatory work, and then raised billions, without giving anything back to the state. This is part of the true financial face of capitalism.

 If business goes well for the giants, the ownership interests and shareholders hoard huge sums for themselves and care little about the state. Money goes to tax heavens and acrobatic tax planning through various forms of holding companies, on Cayman Island, Bermuda, City of London, Jersey, etc. In this way it is almost impossible to know who actually owns the company and where the money goes.

The enormously lucrative Salmon Industry in Norway.

In Norway, this is a major problem in the very lucrative salmon industry. The money goes out of the country and does not contribute to the community through its own taxes. If business goes bad and the banks and financial institutions fail because they have operated irresponsibly in the market, but themselves secured large dividends before imminent bankruptcy is reported, the state is suddenly extremely important to save the company’s jobs and the bank customers’ savings.

We also have private kindergartens that are allowed to buy land cheaply from the public sector, often many and which are run with public funds, tax money and parental payments. The owners have made a fortune and transfer the money to tax havens, or sell expensively abroad, what they once bought and pretended was supposed to be a help to society. Instead, the community’s values ​​have disappeared abroad.

Stately Hospitals and estates sold out to private estate-barons. Patients losing their psychiatric hospital.

We have private purchasers of hospital and hospital apartments that, for example, our capital Oslo municipality has owned, to rent cheaply to those who work nearby in the big hospitals. After the private sector has taken over, the nurses cannot afford to live there, and they often have to leave the hospital because the journey to work is too long.

This is a greater crime against society than if a young boy sells drugs on the street, and steals gold watches or jewelry from a fashion store, or the luxury car of an executive. The difference, however, is that the boy is punished with prison, while he or she who sneaks away billions from the community is allowed to go free, due to loopholes in the law, or good connections to politicians who make laws and regulations.

Why can’t I have my earned money for myself.

What is the problem with someone being so smart that they avoid being punished even though they cause much more damage to society, even though they appear polite, dress elegantly, and know exactly what to say and not to say, through their highly paid lawyers? It goes without saying, even for the intelligent who vote for parties on the extreme right:

It creates far too great differences in the world. And such differences between the ordinary man and woman, and the many very rich, creates instability in the society. In the US. we have almost civil warlike conditions and polarization, which is very bad for both the country’s economy and a sense of community and shared citizenship.

But as an American friend of mine said, I have worked so hard to achieve my wealth and sacrificed even friendship and time with my children. Why should I pay 37 percent of my millions a year, to pay for welfare, medicines, and goods I can buy myself? (Listen up: It’s only that part of his income that exceeds 540.000 dollars that he has to tax 37%. Under 90.000 dollars he pays 10%, then 32%, 35% up to 540.000 that is the maximum tax rate) Then I know a family in Alabama where both husband and wife have two or three low-paying jobs to get head above water. Some workers do not have enough income to pay for food or health insurance and can be broke if they also need an operation.

What about the really big consumers, that pollute the environment more than does the half population on earth?

It seems very unfair that a tiny percentage of the population consumes the resources of more than half of the world’s population when the environmental crisis is threatening the whole world. In addition, unfortunately, these very few with their access to media, are creating an idealization of a type of business and lifestyle for the young. This lifestyle is contra productive of our survival. It destroys the earth and impoverishes the state in the various countries.

When tax money disappears, this again hits the public health service, which is being privatized in an increasing number of countries. When public health services are drained of funds, private solutions require expensive health insurance from the patients. But many citizens have no chance of paying such insurance, and risk going bankrupt due to hospitalization.

If there are any forms of infrastructure or services that should be free in any modern democracy, it is health, care, kindergarten, school, care for the elderly, and accessible roads. Therefore, the state and municipalities need you and my tax money to fulfill this promise.

If you disagree with this, I wonder what kind of view you have of man, and what you think is important for every living person. I can say that: at least it’s not a lot of money. You must have enough to live, eat and dress, heat your home, take a holiday, buy presents for your loved ones, be able to pay your bills to live on.

Basic human needs that heal both greed and ruthless capitalism:

1. The most important thing is to be seen, heard, and listened to as the one you are. To be recognized and accepted as a fellow human being regardless of how you look, what you produce, your race, or sexual orientation. Yes, the most important thing in your life is to be accepted and recognized unconditionally.
2. Next, it is of great importance, that you are also appreciated for what you do, for your work, your efforts. But basically, the first point has the greatest impact on your well-being and mental health.

These are the two most important legs of self-esteem to stand on. But if the first thing is not in place, that you are unconditionally loved by your closest caregivers, you will become enormously hungry for recognition, through career, money, power and greed most of all, which unfortunately destroys the environment around you and eventually makes even you very unhappy.

Therefore, a strong state is needed with clear regulations of money and the property market, over consumption, and lack of respect for the environment.

The responsibility of the free Press.

To achieve that, we need an independent press that has not allowed itself to be bought off by money power or rich politicians. This is where capitalism in its current form is so harmful, because the task of the press is to inform the people of the real problems we are facing today, which threaten democracy and a fair distribution of the country’s goods. If the press fails in this task, it merely represents a mouthpiece for the powerful and moneyed, conveying entertainment, inconsequential news, mudslinging, and celebrity gossip.

Managers in high positions should undergo a personality test before being given the job.

Front page photo over, from NRK film: “Crimes of the Future.

The Seducers of People and Nations.

What do we do with that madness, which the mad do not see in themselves, and do not want help with, and which those around them do not see through either, but instead cheer, because it is rhetorically unsurpassed, often simple and divisive, but appeals to the most primitive instincts in us, when we are not well ourselves, or lie with a broken financial back, and have nowhere to place the misery? (World history has many of them, even today. You don’t just have to go to the USA to find examples.)

We who allow ourselves to be seduced

Powerless, without a job that makes it possible to get by financially. If we have at the same time low education, status and minimal influence on either our own lives or the nation’s, then the following can happen: We buy bit by bit the madness of him or her with the gifts of speech, their black and white thinking, the image of the enemy that they serve, often in a vernacular language we recognize.

Often an irresistible charm.

Because these “mad” people most often have high intelligence, are oriented to time and place, and are able to position themselves very strategically in the landscape they maneuver in. Many around them are fascinated. –“She is strong, an iron woman for her time, she will clear the way for me! He is the strong rescuer, it is now that we need him. Yes, I need her or him, more than anyone!”

Why don’t we discover this mask in time?

Worst of all, it takes far too long for the environment to realize that this person is completely insane. Not psychotic, which is usually associated with this term mad, but psychopathic or sociopathic, – where the deep psychological damage is transformed into power and domination.

For this person,let’s say it is the guy on the photo above. It may originally be a question of a survival strategy, which may have been necessary to save themselves in an unhappy growing up situation. But this way of being is later denied or glorified, and sometimes even the opposite, – it is justified as the very lesson, that life is a battle, win or lose, eat or be eaten yourself.

Where do we find these deviant individuals?

We recognize the phenomenon in all organizations, both public and private, civil and military, in schools and hospitals, in politics and in state leadership.

The climbers who really lack compassion for anyone but themselves, but even there the compassion is limited, it’s about reputation, not inner pain. But these madmen and women, can play nice, accommodating and submissive to superiors on the way up, while at the same time sticking sticks in the wheels of clever but gullible colleagues.

Finally at the top,- gold and green forests are promised to people in the organization. It must be cleaned up, implemented, modernized and action taken.

But what happens then, when the person get the power and glory he has fought for all his life?

Soon the purge of forces around them will begin, who want dialogue, nuanced debates about the choice of path, constructive criticism. The madman cannot stand this, and takes it as an offense, and takes revenge by freezing out, throwing out, dismissing, or in the worst case, having this offender removed by murder.

What about the CEO in a business organization?

Fear begins to prevail in the administration. You don’t dare speak up. You only dare to stay at your post, by taking the wrong one, so as not to lose everything, in the worst case, you yourself will be taken away.

If it is about serving an entire organization, this service will weather and become dysfunctional over time. If it is about serving an entire nation, the discontent will increase to the point where the strategist has to start a diversionary maneuver, by pointing to forces outside the country’s borders, which are destroying his program and plan for the country. In the worst case, if the internal frustration in the country ends in protests and actions, a war must be started with neighbors, in order to raise patriotism and unity within against a created external enemy.

To detect a person with clear psychopathic traits.

It is very common to test workers on the ground level. If you go to a large group that sells clothes, food or a large retailer of electrical items, computer equipment, white goods, TVs, flat screens, etc., the rule is that all employees must have undergone extensive personality testing, in addition to an interview.

Those at the top have escaped being tested for far too long.

If you are going to become an executive director, politician, member of the government, prime minister, president or other head of state, there is probably no requirement to have undergone a revealing personality test.

People in very important and high positions should be tested before they get the job.

What professions do people with clear psychopathic traits choose?

Researcher and psychologist Kevin Dutton has written several books about psychopaths, and explains in the business magazine Forbes that some occupational groups are more attractive to psychopaths than others:

Positions with a high proportion of psychopaths:

    1.Managing directors

    2. Lawyers

    3. Media persons (TV and radio)

    4. Sales people

    5. Surgeons

    6. Journalists

    7. Police

    8. Priests

   9. Chefs

    10. Public officials

(I don’t know if we can rely on this and the list below, but will take them into consideration for those who might find it interesting.)

Jobs with the lowest proportion of psychopaths:

1. Care workers

    2. Nurses

    3. Therapists

    4. Craftsmen

    5. Stylists

   7. Charity workers

    8. Teachers

    9. Creative professions

   10. Doctors

    11.Accountants

NB: There should now be a requirement that people in high positions who influence an entire company, organization, party organization, military defense and not least state leadership should undergo personality tests before qualification. These must be tests where you cannot hide or lie about your psychopathic, sociopathic, narcissistic personality traits and demeanor.

Which personality tests are most suitable?

There are many personality tests that are intended to reveal psychopathic traits in the individual. I’m afraid many of them allow themselves to be seen through, by the fact that you can lie to yourself from a high negative score.

So I won’t set out to rank any of them. I will only deal with two, – the best known test, and the one I have used most myself.

Perhaps the most widely used test today is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which is usually used to detect a person’s psychopathic and antisocial tendencies. It is also based on factor analysis, consists of 20 questions where the score on the test can be compared with the typical score for a psychopath. It is applicable both outside and within the criminal part of the population. (It was constructed by psychology professor Robert Hare, former teacher at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has also worked as a forensic psychologist for many years.) (R.D. Hare “Without Conscience” 1993)

Who can become violent and dangerous?

Hare’s personality test is considered a valuable instrument in estimating a person’s propensities to use violence in various situations. This test also seems to capture sexual aggressiveness in both men, women and young people. Thus, it can estimate with a certain margin of uncertainty how likely it is that a person will commit an offense, for example acting out with violence

In Norway, with a population of around 5.5 million people per the end of 2022. We estimate that there are around 110,000 people with clear psychopathic, anti-social traits. (projected from Svenn Torgersen’s numerical material estimated by NRK 2014, when this diagnosis included around 100,000 people, and the population was 1.5 million) This is approx. 2% of the population.

Psychologist and lawyer Grethe Nordhelle explains that there are several personality traits that are repeated in people with psychopathic traits, here popularly described as psychopaths. She highlights three of the main features: They lack empathy and the ability to empathize with other people’s situations, they lack the ability to see themselves in perspective and they are very rigid and stuck. They also have a reality disorder that makes them believe in their reality as the only correct one. (www.klikk.no.Helse)

It is the victims who get sick and seek help, never the psychopaths.

In addition to the traits highlighted above, I would add that if you treat the victims of these antisocial deviants, which I have done for many years, with threats and life as a stake, – it becomes clear that psychopaths are very predictable in their projections and its vulnerability. By listening to what the psychopath thinks about the motives of his spouse, partner, lover and friends, who come to harm in order to point out the person’s behavior, possibly his own children who are not idealized, you actually see right into the psychopath’s own emotional life, circle of motives and plans. “It’s everyone else who is crazy, sick, evil, idiots and wants to hurt me, – I myself am wonderful!”

Where you cannot cheat the test, or lie without being discovered.

The test I have the most experience with is the MMPI (The Minnesota Multiplastic Personality Inventory). The MMPI-2 test consists of 567 true-false questions and takes approximately 60 to 90 minutes to complete. The test has its own lying score, i.e. where both exaggerations and understatements and contradictory statements make it possible to interpret the extensive profile that appears on a form in a very nuanced way. The form forms a curve that looks like “mountains, valleys and ridges”, on a sheet of paper. The height of the peaks in the profile indicates the extent to which a person is characterized by the various personality traits that are measured.

A more relational and psychodynamic manual for interpretation of the graphic scores on the MMPI

I have created a psychodynamic compendium for the interpretation  of these complex profiles, which has proved very useful for understanding the way the patient, through his psychological defenses and his way of feeling and thinking, has coped with the relationships this person has been in, earlier in his life.

It has also been possible to predict how much the patient internalizes conflicts, is able to process them mentally, or reacts psychosomatically, in that the body has to take the strain in the form of body pain, stiffness, stomach ulcers, asthma, inner turmoil, etc.

In addition, and it is probably almost the topic of this article today, how much of their conflict material the patient acts out, and how likely it is that the act out is violent and directly dangerous for those around them. For the time being, only my students have received this compendium, and those I have guided further towards the specialist degree.

Unfortunately, it seems that people with strong psychopathic traits, (pure psychopaths) are beyond treatment, both because they will almost never condescend to be treated, and because their personality is so rigid and hardened that their entire reality and self-concept stands and falls on this reinforced structure.

Our planet would be a better place to live on for people animals and the environment if these people were demasked on an early stage of their career.

But I believe that the world would be a better place for most people if these people were discovered early in their development, and in any case before they had climbed into very influential positions. Therefore, tests should be compulsory for people who aspire to high positions, and especially those with great local and national social responsibility.