Only the least intelligent psychopaths get caught. The really smart ones are masters of PR; they can make themselves look more altruistic than actual altruists.

Only the least intelligent psychopaths get caught. The really smart ones are masters of PR; they can make themselves look more altruistic than actual altruists. They only show their true face once they no longer have a use for you. They are excellent actors. If the best manipulator in your local community is talented, think of how talented the best manipulator in your country is... Then compare that to how talented the best manipulator in world is. That is the danger of globalization. World-class psychopaths are as intelligent as other world-class individuals (very intelligent) but the difference is that almost all of their intelligence goes into presentation and manipulation - Very little goes into the actual craft that they are supposedly experts in. But from the perspective of non-experts, they come across as smarter than the actual experts.