Inside the evil mind of Jimmy Savile

Oliver James wrote an interesting article in the Observer about what made Jimmy Savile the way he was. A good question that I have not seen asked but though the article is worth reading Dr. James's answers are not very convincing.


it reminds me of two female psychopaths whom I knew. Both were highly intelligent Romanian lawyers who wanted to get into politics. Both knew they were psychopaths, fantasised about violence but contented themselves by causing harm in legal, non-violent ways and one of them told me that in a relationship with a man 10% of the fun was sex and 90% came from working out how to cause him pain and harm him, preferably lastingly.

The recent research that I have read about suggests that it is still generally considered very likely that psychopathy is in large part caused genetically. Psychopaths' brains differ from the brains of normal people but this means nothing as the brain continues to grow and change in childhood. The psychopaths I knew certainly struck me as being utterly different from normal human beings in a way that suggested a genetic difference, but the same would be true of autists and other kinds of people too. In fact the only hard evidence would be if two identical twins were brought up in very different environments and both were or only one was a psychopath. 

What we do know is that since Hitler there is a huge disinclination to admit the importance of genetics  and therefore scientists, who are as frightened of being politically incorrect as everyone else, are inclined to downplay genetics too much. (Homosexuality is an exception to this rule, though - liberals want to believe homosexuality has a genetic cause.)


Oliver James' last sentence exposes the idiocy of liberalism:

The only way to have avoided a person of Savile's psychology would have been a society that puts the needs of every small child first. In that case, his relationship with his mother would be noticed and appropriate help provided.

Idiocy and worse than idiocy. The idea that the state can detect incipient psychopaths in the cradle is actually a terrifying one, truly worthy of Brave New World.


Click here for what I wrote about Savile as a psychopath when the scandal first burst.