``WHAT?!?!?!?'' Chris Doss
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Really, Chris, this shouldn't be alarming. There are various ways to arrive at such an idea, with genetics last on a very long list.
For example, one in three people in the general Los Angeles area might be a psychopath, hence those going to look for work are just a representative sample. There is strong antecdotal evidence for this possibility since two of the last seven US presidents, Nixon and Reagan were sociopaths and spent their earily political careers in Los Angeles politics. Two sevenths is smaller than one third--but it does indicate a tendency.
Another possibility is that most people know better than to go to the dysfunctional California State Employment Development agency to find work. I certainly would never go there. Hence, out of the three who share this illusion, also have other illusions, and one in three of those are so delusional as to qualify as psychopaths.
Yet another possibility is that, of those desparate enough to seek out and find one of these not very numerous or conveniently located offices amid the urban sprawling chaos or their insanely confusing instructions on the internet, one in three of them is desparate enough to be called a sociopath. If they were not sociopathic before they sought jobs in this agency, they very likely will be, in a ratio of one to three by the time they are finished.
There are other explanations. For example, only those people who must meet a probation department requirement to show proof of an official search for employment, who are in effected ordered by the court to go to an official California Employment office, would go to such places. Of those former convicts and those on probation, one in three is a sociopath. Women on welfare of course must also show an effort to seek work and are under administrative orders to do so. If the courts, prisions and welfare agencies only drove one in three people crazy, that's not too bad.
Poor idiots like Watson, simply have no idea what it is like to attempt to use the Kafkaesque state and municipal agencies in a mass urban society where offices are jammed to the doors and state employees see hundereds, possibly thousands of people a day.
CG
What I really love are these factoids which inflame by their dramatic credulity.