important thoughts on psychopathy

I recently read Dawkins' God Delusion, which I recommend, despite it's failings. It got me thinking about how he was so inspired by The Origin of Species. It's not been copernican for me - in fact Dawkins' own book was more so. Later that night I got to thinking (Sex in the City reference) about how OoS didn't stir many of my minds patterns, but Dawkins' less seminal offering did. We all have different models in our heads (pattern machines etc.) and the various inputs will prod them in different ways (Dawkins for me, OoS for him).

Suddenly patterns formed and it hit me: the reason we aren't psycho's is that from a Freudian view, our feedback loop is very short. We observer ourselves inside our heads and feed back before we externalize anything. For psycho corps, the feedback loop is immensely long and has a greater chance that stuff will be externalized before being internally scrutinized. The super-ego of a large corp is hobbled!

I like Freud, despite his lack of rigor. He was a model maker. The model he made worked and fitted and helped a lot of people. Perhaps study of the human mind might learn things from the method Freud employed to model the human mind.