Another thing worth considering is how different the manifestation of psychopathy in a white person would be today vs. the past.

First off, there’s a difference in how psychopathy manifests in a very intelligent person vs. a less intelligent person. Intelligence has the power to amplify and make more effective any other trait a person has. In the case of “evil” (inability to care about the pain of others, violent impulses) intelligence makes it that much more “evil” because it becomes more effective, more elaborate, more sinister. As in the case of famous serial killers.

Intelligence helps a serial killer go longer before being caught, obviously, as they evade police for longer due to it. Better at covering tracks, etc.

So if a white person and a black person both have the same level of “evil” or lack of compassion, it may manifest in a much more frightening way from the white person because, on average, he’d be smarter and more able to consider things like avoiding leaving DNA evidence, prints, etc. If you’re impulsive and stupid, you’re less likely to be able to consider such things in the heat of the moment, or even afterward.

Anyway… back to my original thought: how might being a psychopath in a white community manifest in the past vs. today?

Well, unfortunately the modern first world society gives many advantages to such a person. For starters, there are so many more people around. This creates an impersonal society and one where someone can easily be a loner and not be on anyone’s radar or gain much attention for it. Even their close neighbors may not notice that they are a loner, or are exhibiting any worrying signs. People aren’t outside as much or as engaged with their neighbors as much as they used to be.

If you live in a small band of hunter-gatherer whites in the distant past, there’s no house for you to build a torture chamber inside of… there’s no massive city for you to disappear into… there’s no endless stream of millions of potential victims… there’s certainly no ability to drive across an entire nation on interstate highways and pick off people along the way, etc. There’s also no gun for you to take down a bunch of people with at once, or bombs, gas, anything else like that. You’re never going to get the ability to torture a victim for as long as you may wish in some controlled environment like a person can easily create in their own home today.

If you were a psycho white guy among a small hunter-gatherer group, for starters you are so occupied with just surviving, getting enough calories, staying warm, etc… there isn’t a lot of time to sit around stewing in your own psychopathy in the first place. If it does manifest, it is unlikely to manifest in more than a single killing before the rest of the group takes you down. It would be so much harder to evade notice, and being identified.

I guess I ended up rambling on some tangential expedition here.. sorry about that. Guess I’m thinking out loud and considering modern environments vs. the past. It’s an interesting topic. One way it may tie in with the previous discussion is this:

I’ve often felt that the only way to truly get a feel for what a group’s genome is like, is to look at the sort of society they create when they have the place to themselves. As the author of this piece came to understand, you don’t get an accurate picture of blacks or Mestizos when they are a handful surrounded by whites. That situation obviously has strong incentives for them to “act white” and play by our rules. As we have relaxed our rules, lost our cultural confidence, and let their numbers balloon as ours receded, we’ve gotten a much more “real” version of them. The realest version can be seen by looking at the places they come from.

And just as the white psychopath’s behavioral patterns will manifest differently, and much more dangerously, in a modern society… so too will black nature be worse in a modern environment. The quantity of victims, the ability to blend into the crowd (flash mob), the ability to strike and then disappear back into the sprawl… the access to firearms they never could have invented on their own… cars… etc. They are somewhat more harmless when they are by themselves, in the sort of equilibrium created by their own limitations.