The future a character who best embodies the Homo sapiens species personality is Zapp Brannigan. Commands power beyond his understanding, has inflated sense of his own intelligence, gets 90% of his meaning and purpose from sci-fi tropes...
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...bullshits institutions into giving him honors, buys that bullshit himself, and then bullshits himself by spending his own $ on more medals. Is oblivious to his own ignorance, but with a Dunning-Kruger confidence that persuades casual onlookers. Deeply repressed insecurity...
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...can on occasion display flashes of pragmatism. Pursues meaningless ends at great cost to others. Browbeats smarter, more idealistic, but more timid types, but is ultimately cowardly himself. Has a practical sense of survival. Not actively evil, but no temptation to be good
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Never heard of him though he reminds me of Kaiser Wilhelm II or, of course, Donald Fauntleroy Trump.
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Unlike them he’s fundamentally happy though, not driven by a burning resentment
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