The Last Psychiatrist and basically any “redpill” blog (I’m not going to link any) are full of claims that low motives are going on all around us, with specific examples
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Moral Mazes and I think some of the postmodernist authors are arguments that businessmen, in practice, are driven by low motives (and not the relatively wholesome self-interest of the classical liberal ideal)
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Machiavelli is the original exposer or low motives but I think by now his insights look pretty tame and few people will have their whole worldview shattered by them
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Reading about what extreme Evangelical Christians actually believe, in their own words, is eye-opening, though it can be *very* intense nightmare fuel. I recommend the blogs No Longer Quivering and Somatic Strength, by religious abuse survivors.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
(Basically I think that’s the key insight; most people are inhabiting a mindset much more like the Quiverfull one than the “liberal” one you inhabit. Even nominally secular & “progressive” people.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Mean Girls, especially if you didn’t attend an American suburban high school. I went to a weird hippie school and thought the social dynamics in high school movies were unrealistic. THEY WEREN’T.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
Pretty much all how-to info on marketing makes claims about people having low motives. (Eben Pagan’s stuff seems better than average at saying some correct things. There’s a lot of pseudoscience out there.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
You may hear anecdotes from upper-level business people and even university professors indicating that they make big decisions on “gut feel” and inexplicit social signals rather than sober cost-benefit analysis.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ArtirKel
“Pitch Anything” is a book containing many such anecdotes but they’re so outrageous even I can’t quite believe they’re true.
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Simone Weil is genius level nightmare fuel on many many levels. I don’t think many people think quite like her; she had what I think would now be called severe OCD; but liberals very often *do not understand* the illiberal mindset and need diverse examples of it.
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I assume if you live in Spain you’re plenty familiar with how Catholics think? If not, read a few First Things posts.
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I went to a religious school and we had mass every two weeks, but I don't recall anything particularly odd, but there probably was. Other than that the Catholicism J was surrounded by was also fairly tame, it's probably more intense in the US these days
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Spain is like that OKCupid option 'Catholic, and laughing about it'
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