Observation: psychopaths are often charming/reassuring and can put you at ease in a trusting, vulnerable state. Hypothesis A: Psychopaths learn to fake norms of trustworthiness and reassurance Hypothesis B: Societies evolve to normalize psychopath behaviors as norms for all
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Trying on 2 summary aphoristic versions of the hypotheses for size A: Sufficiently advanced psychopathy/sociopathy is indistinguishable from good manners B: Civilization is the process of turning sociopathy into good manners B strikes me as more true
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Oh shit just realized
@kimballscott 2x2 fits right into this theory. Ruinous empathy and manipulative insincerity are right next to each other and if you can’t tell real/fake “care personally” apart, they’ll look the same to you.pic.twitter.com/lmuvcEZmcm
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If you have low self-awareness you won’t be able to tell them apart even on yourself, and mistake your own manipulative insincerity for empathy. In the zone in between it may be ruinous for others but advantageous for you.
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This is a tempting conclusion to draw but us actually survivorship bias. If you don’t actually successfully resist a manipulation attempt you might *never* realize it. This is one way redpilling works: revealing your manipulated condition to yourself.https://twitter.com/tdoggyholhol/status/1310289947572736001 …
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Subconscious = known unknown (“something is wrong here/spider sense tingling”) Unconscious = you register the data necessary to draw the right conscious conclusion but don’t actually do so, and might never do so. Doesn’t need repression. Just failure to think it through.
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