[lastcat743]

The loudest voices will prevail.

Blame Americans. Blame America. Don’t blame the “psychopaths”, blame yourself for not understanding yourselves.

Good people want to prosper, enjoy their lives, their families and loved ones. Good people in their primes are always ineffectual in matters of power. Those exceptions you can see why they are so, and such tenacity of will and rebounding spirit can only be said compulsive. More psychosis to set you straight.

Without “principle and devotion”, that translate to lives on the line, your ideas are mass delusion and cognitive dissonance.

Power is made of people not societal assurances, this generation is one of sweet lies over bitter truths, and the opportunists and fanatics have every advantage.

* “loudest voices”, most persistent and invasive into the mind.

[bigbadfeline]

> Power is made of people not societal assurances

First and foremost, power is made of money, everything else is a distant second. "Whoever's got the gold, he makes the rules" (tm)

[PaulHoule]

There's a general complaint that narcissists get ahead in America, one of the worst things about Trump that doesn't get talked about is that he sets a bad example. When Trump was elected the first time my mother-in-law quit going to the local casino for a while because people just got ruder and lewder, tried to grab her ass more and stuff like that.

The only thing good about a high-D environment (see [1]) is that high-D people don't feel like they have to mask and pretend to be low-D, they are not "wolves in sheeps clothing" but are actually explicit about how they are. (As narcissism is a developmental arrest, high-D people don't understand how low-D people operate and find masking really hard)

In the last six months there has been a chorus of people who say things to the effect that "Elon Musk accomplished things because he is an asshole" as opposed to "he accomplished things despite being an asshole" such as a certain "high agency" splog that's been submitted many times to HN but never made it to the top.

[1] https://darkfactor.org/

[gsf_emergency_2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...

Has much more personality than

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects

Hence

medium < game

[tharmas]

"You don't have to be an asshole to get things done".

Unfortunately, I cannot recall whom I first heard saying this. I really wish more people would adopt this as a philosophy.

[gsf_emergency_2]

Hey bro, your dark-factor idea (as you currently sell it) is mid-D :)

I mean there's as much reception by HN (high-D?) as of that high-agency splog we deride :)

("Schplog"?)

To be clear, it's exciting to me, though I can guess at why people don't buy it, beyond the fact that HN voters are wary of narcissistic idea pushers. Tetrad is missing the personality!!

Fwiw, I have been selling some mid-D ideas of my own (check my comments)

These are normally things that I personally find revolutionary... They would obviously require a lot more work to go viral:

Like a data-driven general theory of (health) insurance that could help tptacek go easy on the pro-institutionalism, or a honest metric of thermodynamic efficiency that is fully independent of (finite) DeltaT :)

These things are screaming for cooperation, but mid-D slop don't :)

Ideas also suffer from developmental arrest, it seems ;)