These posts explore the themes developed in my monograph, Narcisso-Fascism, which is itself a real-world test of the central concepts of the Biocognitive Model of Mind for psychiatry.
Tremendous writing. I'm not an expert in many things here but I am confident to agree generally with your sentiments. Your final paragraph about surveillance (and I dare add AI) monitoring of the elite was the cherry on top. If you are going to hold high office you need to be 100% accountable including through constant recording. I myself have proposed that all spending by anyone should be made common information.
Agreed, their financial dealings would be part of the permanent record. Seems to me that if you want to hold a position of authority, you should be prepared to give up something for the honour. Having all your life recorded and available later for scrutiny would be a small price to pay to ensure integrity. However, people pursuing high office, as you put it, believe they are doing the world a favour and should be able to pick up a few benefits along the way. Trump is a perfect example, all the corruption in Ukraine, etc. but it's universal. As the sense of power and status grow, so too does the sense of privilege and entitlement. Look at that dickhead Andrew now Windsor: he's contributed nothing to the world but believed he was entitled to whatever his eye fell on. Cheers, JMcL
Tremendous writing. I'm not an expert in many things here but I am confident to agree generally with your sentiments. Your final paragraph about surveillance (and I dare add AI) monitoring of the elite was the cherry on top. If you are going to hold high office you need to be 100% accountable including through constant recording. I myself have proposed that all spending by anyone should be made common information.
Agreed, their financial dealings would be part of the permanent record. Seems to me that if you want to hold a position of authority, you should be prepared to give up something for the honour. Having all your life recorded and available later for scrutiny would be a small price to pay to ensure integrity. However, people pursuing high office, as you put it, believe they are doing the world a favour and should be able to pick up a few benefits along the way. Trump is a perfect example, all the corruption in Ukraine, etc. but it's universal. As the sense of power and status grow, so too does the sense of privilege and entitlement. Look at that dickhead Andrew now Windsor: he's contributed nothing to the world but believed he was entitled to whatever his eye fell on. Cheers, JMcL