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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 25

    In a fascinating forthcoming book, Ian Hughes shows how narcissistic paranoid psychopaths gravitate to positions of power, w disastrous consequences. Institutions (particularly liberal democracy) are needed to constrain the dark side of human nature.https://disorderedworld.com/ 

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      2. Martin Gurri‏ @mgurri Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        But by this logic, institutions are most likely to be dominated by narcissistic paranoid psychopaths, no? So maybe what is needed to constrain the dark side of the human condition is a reduction in the power of institutions...

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      3. David Martin‏ @djmartingtl Jun 25
        Replying to @mgurri @sapinker

        That was pretty deep. I like it 👍🏻

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      1. LibertyForAll‏ @mwesmakVsje Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steve Pink you're my favorite psychologist and writer. I just bought the Enlightenment Now book and slowly my world is opening up to new ideas & perceptions of global community. Despite me been a political science student, my just obsessed with psychology and its thank you.

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      2. E. Salcedo-Albaran‏ @esalbaran Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Amazing. This has been a clear challenge in the modern State, but it becomes a more complex challenge in times of hyper-connected society. Facing current challenges with institutions designed a couple of centuries ago is a problem. We need new institutional architectures.

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      3. Le Duc Thuan‏ @thuanmanga Jun 25
        Replying to @esalbaran @sapinker

        The Millenials Generation is actually the ones making our Institutions rebuilding from the Ground Up

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      1. After Sol‏ @Locus_of_Ctrl Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        I dunno, this seems more of an argument for hereditary monarchy to me.

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      2. Julian‏ @Dv21Jdv Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker @benshapiro

        What happens when institutions start to display those traits? Charities, the UN etc?

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      3. David Martin‏ @djmartingtl Jun 25
        Replying to @Dv21Jdv @sapinker @benshapiro

        Clinton Foundation. 90+ percent overhead costs, less than 10% going to charity. UN against our interest, why should we fund them? Good examples

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      4. Julian‏ @Dv21Jdv Jun 25
        Replying to @djmartingtl @sapinker @benshapiro

        Spot on. Institutions never finish the project they represent and never disband themselves. Most exist for the benefit of themselves,not their championed cause. FIFA, the IOC, many "charities" are like the Clinton Con, then we get onto religions.... not today though......

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      1. Serina Sanchez‏ @star3catcher Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm with @sociopathworld in that if we started treating psychopathy more like we do other disorders, searching for early signs so we can help them instead of smoking them out, we might be able to quench their more destructive inclinations early on and not have this problem.

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      2. Arnold Rimmer BSC SSC‏ @HitMisAnthrope Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        No offense, professor P, but that's hardly groundbreaking news, is it?

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      1. Alan Mc.‏ @typers7 Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Charlie Chaplin was obviously first though.pic.twitter.com/gTFmAuLZxf

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      1. Marcus Tullius‏ @pavo_burel Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        says a guy in the position of power. 🤔

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      1. Kyle Thomas‏ @surfkt Jun 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is an interesting piece, but the author also seems overly focused on explaining social systems as manifestations of personality disorders. I think a better focus (implied in the piece - not contradictory) would be the structural incentives that attract these kinds of people

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      1. Edward Elderman‏ @edwereddie Jun 25
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        Hitler and Manson:examples of people who lived wout the super ego’Wout conscience "the instinctual mind creates a very charismatic super-predator. It’s not mistaken to say that both didn’t know they lacked a conscience.They literally lost their minds" Michael Smith

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      1. I am a multitude [c0dew3aver]‏ @asoupisnotatree Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        But the institutions are failing! Just look at fascist @realDonaldTrump and his enablers at the @GOP

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      1. Fauxmaha‏ @J3ffMiller Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        That's good, but he omits the most important safeguard in the American system: Diffuse power structures. States independent of Federal government, Federal government divided into three co-equal branches, etc.

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      2. Forfare Davis‏ @Pseudoplotinus Jun 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Forfare Davis Retweeted Steven Pinker

        This just in: James Madison was right.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1011286960034349056?s=21 …

        Forfare Davis added,

        Steven PinkerVerified account @sapinker
        In a fascinating forthcoming book, Ian Hughes shows how narcissistic paranoid psychopaths gravitate to positions of power, w disastrous consequences. Institutions (particularly liberal democracy) are needed to constrain the dark side of human nature. https://disorderedworld.com/ 
        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Forfare Davis‏ @Pseudoplotinus Jun 25
        Replying to @Pseudoplotinus @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/gTTs0IAIOO

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