There’s a little clip from an upcoming documentary making the rounds on social media. It’s from a film called You Can See Everything, which chronicles the final days before convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes is sent to prison.
If you don’t remember who Elizabeth Holmes is, she’s the erstwhile CEO of Theranos —a medical technology company that saw its value rise astronomically during the early 2010s based on claims that it possessed potentially revolutionary medical technology, making Holmes a fortune and winning the accolades of the corporate media for her trailblazing status as the youngest self-made female billionaire.
Turns out, it was all bunk, and a series of investigations starting in 2015 resulted in a total collapse of Theranos’ estimated value by 2018 and Holmes’ conviction for defrauding investors in 2022. She received 11.5 years in prison and began her term in 2023.
The clip in question from the documentary comes from the teaser trailer and features Holmes speaking to Nathan Fielder, a comedian and one of the co-directors, and staring into his eyes as she assures him, “I’m not that person, I can promise you that. I don’t have anything to deceive you on; of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you?”
To get the full effect, you have to watch the clip for yourself below:
It’s … unsettling, to say the least. Holmes in the clip has the smile, stare, and voice intonation of someone who is very much trying to deceive you and is very practiced at it. She plunges deep into the sincerity uncanny valley. She has the right demeanor, the right facial expression, and says the right words, but something about it is just … off, and in a deeply uncomfortable way.
Now, as you might expect, a lot of great memes have already come out of this, but it also shows just how unsettling real sociopathy is. Holmes seems to display multiple prominent signs of sociopathy, including a lack of empathy, frequent use of manipulation, irresponsibility (because of, you know, the whole fraud thing), and a lack of remorse. And this is the exact type of personality that makes up HR departments, the federal bureaucracy, the left’s NGO network, and the Lindsay Clancy fandom.
It’s often difficult to spot a sociopath in day-to-day life, but they tend to manifest in one way or another. The petty tyranny of the government bureaucracy, or any bureaucracy for that matter, is a pretty good example. If you’ve ever been to the DMV, gone through TSA security, or dealt with your company’s HR manager (about three-quarters of whom are women), you’ve probably run into someone who displays sociopathic tendencies. They’ve utterly infested politics and journalism. Really, just look at any journalist from the propaganda press or any politician from the Democrat Party, and you won’t need to be an expert in the DSM to spot the symptoms. And if you really pay attention, you’ll notice that most of these roles are taken up by women.
They get that sense of fulfillment in those types of roles because they allow them to act out those sociopathic behaviors — again, a lack of empathy toward their victims, constant deceit and manipulation in the wielding of petty power, and the “safe edgy” breaking of social norms (fighting the “patriarchy,” and so forth). Once you know what to look for, you’ll start seeing it everywhere.
We’ve seen quite a bit of sociopathy among the defenders of Lindsay Clancy, the vast majority of whom are women. Countless TikTok videos have concocted all sorts of insane theories to try to either excuse her horrible act or try to shift blame onto others. A crowd of women gathered outside the courthouse to show solidarity with the dead-eyed former mother of three. And Clancy’s defenders proclaimed her innocence with either complete disregard or callous minimization of the real victims: Clancy’s three murdered children.
Three jurors recently came forward for an interview, and they tick a lot of boxes. They fawned over Clancy’s defense attorney, calling him “funny,” “entertaining,” and full of “compassion” for Clancy. Meanwhile, they characterized the single holdout juror as “very arrogant” and seemed to berate him for not listening to their own expertise (which is against the rules) during deliberations. One juror lamented that the holdout “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay Clancy killed her children.” Just read that last sentence again and tell me these women aren’t sociopaths.
These people have infiltrated just about every major institution in our society. They’ve embedded themselves in Hollywood, academia, NGOs, journalism, and, in Holmes’ case, corporate boardrooms. And that’s how you get 11 people who will let a woman off for strangling her three kids and one brave juror who refused to bow down to the manipulation and browbeating.
A record number of people in the U.S., and women in particular, have serious mental health issues. More than half of all leftist white women younger than 30 have been told by a medical professional that they have a mental health issue, and it’s not much better for women over 30. The prescription of medication for mental health issues has skyrocketed in recent years. Over a quarter of women have an antidepressant prescription, and nearly 14 percent of men do too. The usage of antidepressants by young women increased 63.5 percent from 2020 to 2022.
I’m not saying that a large percentage of our population is born as unfeeling would-be monsters. They’re influenced by our culture of chronic immorality and the drive to seek attention at all costs. The nature of social media and the internet rewards anti-social behavior. The sociopathic girlboss not only becomes a billionaire, but she also becomes a celebrity, which might be the bigger draw in our attention-addicted culture. The girl who habitually manipulates people, morality be damned, gets what she wants, and she gets a lot of attention while doing it.
The toleration and even rewarding of sociopathic behaviors on social media like TikTok pose a serious danger to our social fabric. After all, we don’t want narcissistic, remorseless manipulators to rule over us or become role models for our nation’s children. But kids see the unhinged behavior on TikTok, in the schoolroom, on CNN, and maybe even in their own homes, and they emulate it, threatening to create further generations of mentally unwell sociopaths.
