The sociopath podcast that wasn’t
Ever since he left Britain, Prince Harry has valiantly endeavoured to carve out a new role in life. Unfortunately, however, not all his ideas have been successful – as a remarkable story in the new issue of Vanity Fair makes clear.
Shortly after moving to the US, a source claims, Harry told Spotify that he wished to present a “sociopath podcast”. In each episode, he would interview powerful world figures (for example, “Mark Zuckerberg, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump”) – and ask them how their life experiences had “made them into sociopaths”.
A startling enough suggestion. But there’s more. Because the podcast would also seek to find out why Harry, unlike his honoured guests, was not a sociopath. A source who “worked closely with [the Sussexes] on audio projects” recalls Harry saying: “I have very bad childhood trauma… What is it about me that didn’t make me one of these bad guys?”
Hahahahaha. It’s just a story, of course, so who knows if it’s true or not, but it’s still funny.
Not all sociopaths have ‘very bad childhood traumas’. Some of them suffer from an excess of entitlement, the idea that no one else is better than they are, or even equal to them.
Some ‘very bad childhood traumas’ don’t turn people into sociopaths. Why? Who the hell knows? Could be genes. Could be the form of childhood trauma. Could be any number of things.
Maybe it’s all the inbreeding? Didn’t think there was much of a “nurture” component to sociopathy.