Modernity breaks the correlation between individual strength and collective well-being. The fates of societies often end up depending on the behaviors of weakling train wrecks with One Weird Trick, while strong people stand aground useless and frustrated.
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Confounding factor: it is easier to present as strong using conventional markers than actually act with strength, so a lot of strength idols have feet of clay and deep weaknesses that manifest invisibly. So they’re actually successful and critical weaklings who market strength
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Felt strength is not the same as strength, otherwise all strength would essential be power-posing. And neither felt nor actual strength actually rules, otherwise “strong should rule the week” would be tautological rather than aspirational.
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This doesn’t mean the weak rule, despite Ayn Rand paranoia about craven parasites. It just means strength (felt or actual) is relatively randomly present in both rulers and ruled. Strength is ironically not the most strongly selected variable in complex societies.
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