I found it interesting how the matter of the choice of restaurant is settled. There’s no compromise in that scenario, no time delay on gratification. The key issue is the food desired, not the location. So it’s resolved by the takeaway. Both get what they want when they want it.
It still requires thought to come up with the solution. I assume then that both see the meeting as desirable, otherwise one or both would be equally happy to walk away from the meeting.
Im new to your writing, so the willingness to find a solution that accommodates the needs of both surprised me I think.
I think that NT's engage in a ton of projection when they speculate about what a psychopath would do. They see someone with no capacity for several emotions that they believe to be central to existence as a human and they then let us all know how they'd act if they could get away with it.
It's not called the "Fear of God" by them but it comes down to the same thing. It's funny but basically pursuing self interest can lead to a psychopath being a much better person than many who believe themselves to 'good people'
Thank you this insightful and well written post. As always, you make me laugh abit:
"I could see more lazy and entitled psychopaths seeing this as a way to have the state pay for them while they figure out how to make the prison system work for them."
I am probably a sociopath- but for sure "lazy and entitled"!! Hahaha. I was in prison for just a minute and did really well there. Except for not being able to leave, the system worked for me.
And this: Cutting to the quick sobering:
"You are just living in the fruits of intellectual labor and blood that waters the grounds on which you walk. Consider what you take for granted and imagine yourself coming up with it on your own"
Thanks again for including me. Please continue your wonderful work.
I wonder what residential, business and government buildings would look like, and if aesthetic guidelines would exist at all. I would imagine office and other residential buildings would be stark and purely functional, geared toward expedience and efficiency. I could also see a well-tended house sitting in between two decrepit ones, with no issues between the neighbors other than encroachment.
Who knows - all conjecture on my part. How do you think cities and neighborhoods would look?
This post, and specially, Blackstone’s Formulation, reminded me of the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. If you don't know this classic yet, I recommend you to read it:
You ever someone who plays the long game.... Like very very long? Spreads love and compassion, let's others show exactly who they are? Then quietly exits with their souls?
That's crazy talk. Na, that guy probably just wanted love. Got the souls as a consolation prize. Crappy people crappy souls.
I saw a weird thing in a weird place. Don't mind me. As one exceptionally sane crazy person to another. I love your work.
I imagine a world predominantly ruled by functional pro-social psycopaths would be a world in which the temperance of emotions and the restraining of base passions would be encouraged - since those things are second nature to the psycopathic mindset, it seems; and they're a big part of its inherent competitive advantage.
Such dynamics likely ebb and flow, within the dance of nations and empires.
Psychopaths are, after all, just another neurodiverse group whose representativity and influence likely varies across time and space. Maybe it would not be unreasonable to try to infer the predominance of ther mindset by comparisson to the matching values on a social scale.
As the saying goes " by the fruit you shall know the tree".
The Age of Reason (aka The Enlightenment) seems to me like last time it might have thus happened.
I found it interesting how the matter of the choice of restaurant is settled. There’s no compromise in that scenario, no time delay on gratification. The key issue is the food desired, not the location. So it’s resolved by the takeaway. Both get what they want when they want it.
It still requires thought to come up with the solution. I assume then that both see the meeting as desirable, otherwise one or both would be equally happy to walk away from the meeting.
Im new to your writing, so the willingness to find a solution that accommodates the needs of both surprised me I think.
I think that NT's engage in a ton of projection when they speculate about what a psychopath would do. They see someone with no capacity for several emotions that they believe to be central to existence as a human and they then let us all know how they'd act if they could get away with it.
It's not called the "Fear of God" by them but it comes down to the same thing. It's funny but basically pursuing self interest can lead to a psychopath being a much better person than many who believe themselves to 'good people'
"The less desirable a job, the larger the reward for doing it. " Great food for thought!
Thank you this insightful and well written post. As always, you make me laugh abit:
"I could see more lazy and entitled psychopaths seeing this as a way to have the state pay for them while they figure out how to make the prison system work for them."
I am probably a sociopath- but for sure "lazy and entitled"!! Hahaha. I was in prison for just a minute and did really well there. Except for not being able to leave, the system worked for me.
And this: Cutting to the quick sobering:
"You are just living in the fruits of intellectual labor and blood that waters the grounds on which you walk. Consider what you take for granted and imagine yourself coming up with it on your own"
Thanks again for including me. Please continue your wonderful work.
I wonder what residential, business and government buildings would look like, and if aesthetic guidelines would exist at all. I would imagine office and other residential buildings would be stark and purely functional, geared toward expedience and efficiency. I could also see a well-tended house sitting in between two decrepit ones, with no issues between the neighbors other than encroachment.
Who knows - all conjecture on my part. How do you think cities and neighborhoods would look?
This post, and specially, Blackstone’s Formulation, reminded me of the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. If you don't know this classic yet, I recommend you to read it:
https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/readings/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-le-guin/view
You ever someone who plays the long game.... Like very very long? Spreads love and compassion, let's others show exactly who they are? Then quietly exits with their souls?
That's crazy talk. Na, that guy probably just wanted love. Got the souls as a consolation prize. Crappy people crappy souls.
I saw a weird thing in a weird place. Don't mind me. As one exceptionally sane crazy person to another. I love your work.
Your intelligence is showing. You know that!
Interesting
I imagine a world predominantly ruled by functional pro-social psycopaths would be a world in which the temperance of emotions and the restraining of base passions would be encouraged - since those things are second nature to the psycopathic mindset, it seems; and they're a big part of its inherent competitive advantage.
Such dynamics likely ebb and flow, within the dance of nations and empires.
Psychopaths are, after all, just another neurodiverse group whose representativity and influence likely varies across time and space. Maybe it would not be unreasonable to try to infer the predominance of ther mindset by comparisson to the matching values on a social scale.
As the saying goes " by the fruit you shall know the tree".
The Age of Reason (aka The Enlightenment) seems to me like last time it might have thus happened.