Sociopathy: What Tony Soprano and Fauci Show Us About Its Spread

We call Tony Soprano a sociopath. Bret Weinstein says the reason the character works is that he's not far off from the rest of us.

BRET: "Tony leaves the car on a college trip for his daughter to decide what school to go to and strangle somebody in the parking lot who he recognizes skipped out on the debt.

So that's the kind of behavior that we take to be indicative. You would have to be a sociopath to do that, but the character still resonates because at the family level, he's within sort of normal range.

But my claim is sociopathy as a state is common, and we must understand it. We must understand ourselves and our indifference to the suffering of people far away, that as an obligate form, it's pathological, that the incapacity to love and to sympathize is pathological."

During the Q&A Heather finds a question that comes up in the chat related to the topic of sociopathy: "Is Tony the Maid Man Fauci a sociopath?"

BRET: "Oh, I think he is a sociopath in the way that Tony Soprano is for sure..."

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