Sociopaths would be glad if the masses just called them "asshole" and went on with their daily lives, instead of researching the corresponding human type to the full available depth of evidence.
It's a bit like "the masquerade" in a certain urban fantasy RPG, and if you look at it in a historical context you could see that the archetypal vampire is mostly an aesthetic folkloric rendering of dark-triad archetype. "An aristocrat that feeds on common people's blood".
Repeated ascendancy of such human type to the top of the social hierarchy, despite the current ideology, is simply tragic.
It's a bit like "the masquerade" in a certain urban fantasy RPG, and if you look at it in a historical context you could see that the archetypal vampire is mostly an aesthetic folkloric rendering of dark-triad archetype. "An aristocrat that feeds on common people's blood".
Repeated ascendancy of such human type to the top of the social hierarchy, despite the current ideology, is simply tragic.