Really nothing new with this Rolling Stone story by Taibbi.  We have talked about all of this repeatedly over the years.  And, we surmised that Mitt Romney seemed a highly disturbing person before he announced his candidacy for 2012.  But, I love to see when others with something to lose have the guts to tell the truth in a medium that has substantial global readership like Rolling Stone.   Taibbi has those guts.  And Rolling Stone has the guts to print it in a mainstream venue. People who are disconnected from their inner divinity or higher power define interactions beyond the self as rationalizations based on what others around them value.  ie, Social mimicry.  And, as such they view relationships as perceptions of duties.  They view relationships or connections beyond the self as duties because they are disconnected from any ability to love or empathize.   Their perceptions of loving someone are more like a depersonalized,...