Autogenesis 14

Without individual responsibility, humanity becomes everyone’s alibi. The denial of humanity or concealed misanthropy?

Could there be as many sociopaths as there are men and women on Earth?

Probably not. Yet structures of power do in fact produce sociopathic behaviour without every person involved being individually sociopathic.

The sociopolitical system dilutes responsibility through hierarchical obedience, professional interest, administrative language, fear of losing one’s position or the desire to become rich. In reality, each person carries out only one fragment, and no one recognises themselves as responsible for the final result.

Like a ladder with X rungs, this perverse effect of governance reveals sociopathy within humanity.

The lack of empathy is naturally bestial. Is it truly human?

If so, violence is not an anomaly of humanity; it is its norm. Wars bear witness to it.

Mathius TO’ERAU, the Suréviste.