Heretics with Andrew Gold

Heretics with Andrew Gold

Psychopaths Run the World. Here's One Admitting It.

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Andrew Gold
May 28, 2026
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I sat down with Loic de Marie, a diagnosed psychopath, for over an hour. He’s not in prison. He’s not Hannibal Lecter. He’s charming, thoughtful and disturbingly normal. Which, it turns out, is exactly the point.

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3 things I learned:

1. The first thing a psychopath learns is how to look normal.
Loic says the number one capacity of a psychopath is to appear just like everyone else. The charm, the politeness, the submissiveness when you hold a door open for them. All of it is a mask. And the mask is the weapon.

2. You can’t be friends with a psychopath, you can only be useful to one.
Loic sees people as assets. “Properties”. He targeted depressed women without fathers. He once told a girl he was dying of cancer just to sleep with her. He knew exactly what he was doing, but just didn’t feel any guilt.

3. They don’t suffer the way you think they do.
Loic says loneliness is the price of greatness. But for a psychopath, it’s not even a price, because you can’t miss something you’ve never felt. “You can’t be sad about chocolate if you’ve never tasted it.” That line stayed with me.


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One of them was whether he ever feels lonely.

His answer stopped me.

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