I get thie sense powerful criminals have a world-view of “all power is corrupt, and it’s just arbitrary which gang manages to label the rest criminals”. Ie a view that the world is run along de facto criminal lines at the top, and law-abiding conduct is for middle class suckers
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This kind of idea is also found in anarchist/libertarian critiques of the state, and in Hitler/Carl Schmitt nihilism (see the intro to Snyder's Black Earth, quoted here: omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2018/04/you-kn )
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Hmm I wonder if the key difference between the criminal and the conflict theorist is that the former is actually superior in at least acknowledging a contempt-worthy but legitimate place for the law-abiding, as suckers. Partial Hobbesian: struggle of a few among themselves
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this is the sociopath thing from your gervais principle, except for society instead of firms right?
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I don’t think so actually. Criminality seems more specialized
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That's a stack of sorts with different branding preferences at the top.
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This is 100% correct -- except that it's not just POWERFUL criminals. Pretty much all career criminals think this way.
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