Pluchi
Jedi
@iamthatis, this is a wonderful explanation! When I was reading the excerpt from Peter Levine, I made a connection to a time in my life when I felt outrageous rage disguised as jealousy. I was having the most horrible thoughts towards a girl that came in between the relationship I was having with my boyfriend. I was very young and he was my first boyfriend, so I didn't know how to deal with the situation. The rage, oh, the rage! Blinding, hurtful, negative, exhausting. I needed to stop feeling like that, it interfered with my thinking, my peace of mind, my life! The way I deflected the rage was by stepping back and looking at the facts--a quite mature behavior now that I look back. I ended up leaving the boyfriend, he put the relationship in that situation, and feeling such anger was putting ME in danger. Never ever did I let something like that happen to me again, at a small sniff of anger (in the whole sense of the word), I run, do jumping jacks, go for a walk, I let it out before it ignites. It is an awful feeling that anyone is capable of manifesting. Let me add that your insight about Victoria's behavior and her psychopathic training helped me to understand the story better. I skipped Blake's part (the spoiler) because I haven't finished the book, but I will go back to your post when I am done.In order to answer your question, I think it makes sense to quote at length the analysis of rage by Peter Levine. This section about rape victims can be a lens to understand both Victoria and Blake, and psychopathic training.
So from this, we can gather that psychopathic training, including the ritual rape of young PTB children, is specifically designed introduce a cyclical biological drama in their formative years. In essence, it turns them into human weapons with no empathy, only different forms of rage. Their subsequent business or social training, hinted at in these novels, probably justifies or 'cools' this rage, and directs it towards its target - everyone who is not one of them (but also probably some of their own kind, too, though to a lesser extent). I see it kinda like how an internal combustion engine functions by thousands of controlled explosions that propel the car forwards - or how a bullet is sent through the barrel of a gun, the orientation and spin of the projectile determined by the grooved 'rifling' inside the barrel.
The key thing in this is the metaphor of the machine. These 'people' are not 'human'.
In these novels, we can see machinic rage expressed 'irrationally' and 'uncontrollably', as in the case of Victoria and her personal revenge. This would possibly be a failure to attain the desired outcome of the conditioning, although it is still a product of it. Also, we can see the type of rage expressed 'according to the agenda', 'rationally' and 'controllably', like an internal combustion engine or a gun, 'going in the right direction', as in the case of Victoria's mother.
As a side note, Blake also killed his father - the book makes it out to be a protective move for his family, but it could also be largely motivated by the 'biological drama' to kill one's rapist.
So rather than 'limitless time and money' being what creates psychopaths, I'd say it's closer to the process outlined above - Soul murder. Then, once you can 'comfortably' torture, poison, manipulate and kill millions of people, it's much easier to set up a system to profit from that, and get all the time and money you want. Especially when your grandparents laid the groundwork for you, and taught you how to do it.
In our day and age, as everything from cell phones to Doritos to the lockdowns have made clear, it's not just that they profit from this intergenerational system of exploitation, in the sense of stealing from us. They get us to pay for our own degradation - and they have also convinced millions and millions to beg for the opportunity to keep doing so.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, reading these books is helping me grow with the people here. I truly appreciate the different perspectives.