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
I clicked on the "Barak" hyperlink in your article. Most of that stuff was news to me, but honestly I wasn't remotely surprised. He was, after all, the psychopath that raped and bashed Virginia Giuffre, and I'm sure Epstein and him had a great time comparing notes.
The desire for status and power pulses through most people's DNA, but unlike chimpanzees, or hormonal teenagers on drugs, we have the ability to mentally edit and control our drives.
The business elite love to invoke the "politics of envy" to sneer at their detractors and aggrandise their engulfing grift, but having once worked a job where I met some of these creatures, believe me, there's nothing to envy. They are some of the most empty, dead automatons you could ever have the misfortune to meet. Sure, some have a certain domineering, alpha charisma, but it's utterly rancid and vacuous. Of course they want to rule the world, vampires agitated by their inner void need their trinkets and worldly intoxication. But any materialistic striver who thinks they're missing out on something by not occupying their perch -- well, they're not.
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
I clicked on the "Barak" hyperlink in your article. Most of that stuff was news to me, but honestly I wasn't remotely surprised. He was, after all, the psychopath that raped and bashed Virginia Giuffre, and I'm sure Epstein and him had a great time comparing notes.
The desire for status and power pulses through most people's DNA, but unlike chimpanzees, or hormonal teenagers on drugs, we have the ability to mentally edit and control our drives.
The business elite love to invoke the "politics of envy" to sneer at their detractors and aggrandise their engulfing grift, but having once worked a job where I met some of these creatures, believe me, there's nothing to envy. They are some of the most empty, dead automatons you could ever have the misfortune to meet. Sure, some have a certain domineering, alpha charisma, but it's utterly rancid and vacuous. Of course they want to rule the world, vampires agitated by their inner void need their trinkets and worldly intoxication. But any materialistic striver who thinks they're missing out on something by not occupying their perch -- well, they're not.