Sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies are rewarded by positions of power
What is curious to me is why billionaires don’t start massive civil projects that would get their bronze statue in every state park?
Musk had several opportunities, except he then had to figure out a way to monetize it so it profited him.
They’re insanely disconnected and selfish. Yes, all of them.
For me, seeing corruption and inequality lead to major depression, but I figured out early I didn’t want to cause harm.
What hit hard is learning deception and exploitation is baked into the system.
I’ve been saying this, on Lemmy and IRL.
The other thing I’ve become adamant about is, if we want honest politicians who aren’t nasty personalities, it begins with seeing dishonesty and nastiness in ourselves, doing the shadow work and deep healing to address wounded inner child, and modeling and expecting healthy behaviors in our children.
The threat of groups out of the normal population correcting them, or in worst case firing them, for not kept promises or derailing plans, can keep them from seeing the population as nothing more than numbers and themselves as a superior in-group.
That’s why i think that Swiss’ initiative/referendum right is a prerequisite for a longtime-stable democratic system. I often see that in germany, where politicians do what they want and people complain that they lie in elections anyway. While here, even the president can take the bus to the Bundeshaus.
Why would anyone want to change when the rewards for being awful are so good? Doing the things you described not only make advancement in a dark society nearly impossible, but it takes a personal toll on the psyche and perspective of the person attempting bettering themselves and the world around them. I say this as someone doing the work.
Maybe it makes achieving personal things in a dark society harder, but it strongly helps to improve society itself. And it’s much more pleasant to live in the opposite of a dark society. A better society is not a zero sum game
Healing is hard and uncomfortable in the short to medium term, but in the long term it’s always preferred
Beautifully said.
You mean capitalism.
Yes, but no. If there were other systems dominate today, I would argue those conditions always coincide. But yeah, capitalism is the only one today
Yeah dark triad personality traits definitely thrived in pre industrial political and economic systems as well
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“Dark” personality thrives in societies
with corruption and inequalityirrelevant qualifiers
A healthy society expels those types
No, it treats them and keeps them out of positions of power. Expelling them just creates criminals.
But democracies really need to recognize the threat that sociapathic and psychopathic disorders pose to the system.
A healthy society
Name five
