It's not new, politics is by definition controlled by these psychology traits.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/2...
But the breakdown in participation recently is the failure on social media. If you give dark triad people the ability to silence their political opponents, they will. Downvotes, flagging, reporting. They'll abuse these features.
This is what X does differently under Elon, he understands this abuse.
lastcat743•6mo ago
Blame Americans. Blame America. Don’t blame the “psychopaths”, blame yourself for not understanding yourselves.
Good people want to prosper, enjoy their lives, their families and loved ones. Good people in their primes are always ineffectual in matters of power. Those exceptions you can see why they are so, and such tenacity of will and rebounding spirit can only be said compulsive. More psychosis to set you straight.
Without “principle and devotion”, that translate to lives on the line, your ideas are mass delusion and cognitive dissonance.
Power is made of people not societal assurances, this generation is one of sweet lies over bitter truths, and the opportunists and fanatics have every advantage.
* “loudest voices”, most persistent and invasive into the mind.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
The only thing good about a high-D environment (see [1]) is that high-D people don't feel like they have to mask and pretend to be low-D, they are not "wolves in sheeps clothing" but are actually explicit about how they are. (As narcissism is a developmental arrest, high-D people don't understand how low-D people operate and find masking really hard)
In the last six months there has been a chorus of people who say things to the effect that "Elon Musk accomplished things because he is an asshole" as opposed to "he accomplished things despite being an asshole" such as a certain "high agency" splog that's been submitted many times to HN but never made it to the top.
[1] https://darkfactor.org/
gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
I mean there's as much reception by HN (high-D?) as of that high-agency splog we deride :)
("Schplog"?)
To be clear, it's exciting to me, though I can guess at why people don't buy it, beyond the fact that HN voters are wary of narcissistic idea pushers. Tetrad is missing the personality!!
Fwiw, I have been selling some mid-D ideas of my own (check my comments)
These are normally things that I personally find revolutionary... They would obviously require a lot more work to go viral:
Like a data-driven general theory of (health) insurance that could help tptacek go easy on the pro-institutionalism, or a honest metric of thermodynamic efficiency that is fully independent of (finite) DeltaT :)
These things are screaming for cooperation, but mid-D slop don't :)
Ideas also suffer from developmental arrest, it seems ;)
gsf_emergency_2•6mo ago
Has much more personality than
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects
Hence
medium < game
tharmas•6mo ago
Unfortunately, I cannot recall whom I first heard saying this. I really wish more people would adopt this as a philosophy.
bigbadfeline•6mo ago
First and foremost, power is made of money, everything else is a distant second. "Whoever's got the gold, he makes the rules" (tm)