I get extremely suspicious of people when I discover that there's some guy whose work they're super into and have made the foundation of their personal philosophy. I do this even if the guy is someone whose work I like, and even if they're someone I like personally.
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I have suspected for a long time that there's a specific set of endocrine responses that kick off in someone who gets treated as a "leader". Like bees turning into queens when their diet changes. It's hard to know how you'd test it, though.
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As of ~15 years ago testosterone was supposed to behave like this. I don’t know what subsequent research says.
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Reminds me of siderea's analysis of kingship in Watership Down ( https://siderea.livejournal.com/1212245.html ; https://siderea.livejournal.com/1212664.html )pic.twitter.com/EpRqT2k6x1
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"Wanting to sub" is an essential aspect of being a domesticated social animal. This is one of the reasons I have difficulty seeing high-verbal-IQ autism as a disease state, rather than an absence of the "domestication syndrome" afflicting much of the population.
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I'd argue the purpose of God as a concept is to inculcate in followers some awareness that even the best leaders are subject to the constraints of physical reality.
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