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First published by Zero Books, 2012 Zero Books is an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd., Laurel House, Station Approach, Alresford, Hants, SO24 9JH, UKoffice1@o-books.netwww.o-books.com
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Text copyright: Adam Kotsko 2010
ISBN: 978 1 78099 091 0
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Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank the following people who have helped me with this project, either through talking through the ideas with me or reading drafts: Natalie Scoles, Brad Johnson, Erika Bolden, Ted Jennings, and Tariq Goddard. I’d also like to thank everyone involved at Zer0 Books for publishing a second book of mine in their excellent series.
Portions of chapter 3 first appeared in a slightly different form in “The Ethics of Dr. Gregory House,” PopMatters, April 23, 2009 .
Introduction On the desire to be a sociopath
My greatest regret is that I’m not a sociopath. I suspect I’m not alone. I have written before that we live in the age of awkwardness, but a strong case could be made that we live in the age of the sociopath. They are dominant figures on television, for example, and within essentially every television genre. Cartoon shows have been fascinated by sociopathic fathers (with varying degrees of sanity) ever since the writers of The Simpsons realized that Homer was a better central character than Bart. Showing that cartoon children are capable of radical evil as well, Eric Cartman of South Park has been spouting racial invective and hatching evil plots for well over a decade at this point. On the other end of the spectrum, the flagships of high-brow cable drama have almost all been sociopaths of varying stripes: the mafioso Tony Soprano of The Sopranos, the gangsters Stringer Bell and Marlo o ............

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