Bernard Pyron
"Mattoid" is not a word used by psychologists or psychiatrists. As far as I know it has been used mostly by populists and patriot types to describe many members of the ruling elite.
Even the characteristics of the common psychopath or "antisocial personality disorder" is probably not a topic that is taught in any detail in abnormal psychology courses, if at all. Here is more on the psychopath and the mattoid.
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (1994) the psychopathic personality disorder is called the Antisocial Personality Disorder.
In the Diagnostic Manuel Antisocial Personality Disorder is said to include
"failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior"
"deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying...or conning others for personal profit or pleasure."
"lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to...having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another."
In the 1978 book, The Psychopath: A Comprehensive Study of Antisocial Disorders and Behavior, by William. H. Reid, he reports that a study of psychopathic children found they had a lack of guilt, or lack of conscience, which is common to psychopaths. They also engaged in "pathological lying," and they tended to steal things. The members of the highest level of the financial elite probably do not steal things; instead, they steal billions of dollars from the people.
Reid reports that adult psychopaths are manipulators who want to control others. Does this trait sound like members of the highest level of the ruling elite, or financial elite? Psychopaths get satisfaction from having put something over on other people - by deception. This is exactly what the financial elite has done with the Federal Reserve scam involving creating money out of nothing, loaning it at interest, using the IRS as a collection agency to collect money from the people to pay the FED, and having lesser banks charge the people so much usury that the majority of them suffer economic hardships of some kind from it. And the members of the financial elite have no guilt for doing all this to us. We let them do it to us, didn't we?
At least three American presidents were assassinated after they severely criticized the usury bankers or tried to go back to lawful, Constitutional money-creation by having the government issue U.S. notes. Lincoln and Kennedy were murdered soon after they had the government issue U.S. notes, which suggests that the big bankers have a criminal nature. Criminality is often a part of the makeup of the psychopathic personality.
I went to a 1978 book on the psychopath in part because by 1994 and the Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders they no longer call this personality disorder a psychopathic disorder. It is called Antisocial Personality Disorder. The Manual says those with this disorder are characterized by "failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior." Antisocial Personality Disorder also involved "deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying...or conning of others...and a lack of remorse by being indifferent to...having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another."
The traits of the common psychopath appear to fit to some extent what we know of the elite international usury bankers. They may try to manipulate people, deceive them, tell lies, engage in massive theft, and appear to have no conscience over their crimes against humanity. But in the book edited by William H. Reid, Frank A. Elliott says psychopaths have some cognitive deficiencies. They may have an inability to distinguish between fact and fantasy, and may fail to learn by experience. Elliott says psychopaths may be unable to remember what they should have learned from past experience and have an "incapacity for direct association and abstract thought (page 157)."
The common psychopath has some cognitive problems, that is, he is not usually the sharpest knife in the drawer, though he may have a certain amount of conning in dealing with others. In contrast, the super psychopath of the oligarchical families of the ruling elite have greater intelligence, and can plan ahead much better. They can carry out their plans in some detail and have a knowledge of human nature that they use successfully in many instances. They can apply to specific situations in the real world abstract ideas such as the Hegelian Dialectic in which they create a problem, and behind the scenes offer a solution that moves the people they are manipulating toward the goals of the ruling elite. Without the creation of that problem, the manipulated people would not have moved in the direction wanted by the elite.
We could say that something like a more intelligent form of the psychopathic mentality was behind the creation of the dialectic method for changing attitudes and beliefs in small group dialogue. The dialectic is deceptive. Its a way of putting something over on unsuspecting group members to change their beliefs away from absolute truth and absolute morality and get them to compromise for the sake of opinion, consensus and feelings. But then, look at Luke 11: 14-27. Here is an example of the use of the dialectic in the New Testament. Christ cast a demon out of a man, since he was still fully God in man's flesh. This is the thesis. The Pharisees or their followers in the group gathered here though - and in other accounts actually overtly said - that Christ was casting out demons through the power of Satan. This is a striking opposition to the thesis, and its called the antithesis. The clash between thesis and antithesis calls for a compromise or some solution that takes away the stress of the opposition. In Luke 11: 27 a woman in the group suddenly says "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked." Seemingly, the group of Jews could agree with this. But spiritually, its a compromise, because it puts the emphasis upon the physical, on the flesh. Christ was teaching spiritual truths didactically and Satan was inspiring the Pharisees to reply by use of the dialectic. So, Satan is the author of the dialectic, which is a deceptive method of imposing one's beliefs on others, to put something over on them, as a psychopath might want to do.
What do we call the super psychopath of the ruling elite?
In the nineteenth century the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso coined the term mattoid. He created mattoid from the Italian matto, or insane, plus the ending "oid," from the Greek eidos, or resemblance. A mattoid was first of all a person who in some ways resembled the insane. From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mat1.htm
The Online free Dictionary says a mattoid is a person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.
Liberty Lobby and the Spotlight Newspaper before it became the American Free Press used the word mattoid to describe members of the ruling elite. Willis Carto of Liberty Lobby and the Spotlight have used mattoid to describe more intelligent psychopaths of the ruling elite in the New World Order. Some in the patriot movement have also used mattoid for the leaders of the New World order.
In saying that the mattoid is a super psychopath of greater intelligence and ability to plan and carry out plans, can apply abstract principles to specific situations, and can use knowledge of human nature effectively, I think gives a more specific definition to the word that that which Cesare Lambroso originally intended.
Mattoid is not a term used by clinical psychologists or psychiatrists. I don't know if mattoid was used previous to its use by Willis Carto and the Spotlight to describe a highly intelligent form of psychopath, some of whom are in the ruling class and in the much smaller ruling elite.
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