The longer I live, the more I come to the inescapable conclusion that most "successful" captains of industry, managers, and politicians are literal psychopaths.
We are ruled by psychopaths working for psychopaths. The only way you can succeed in their hierarchy is to be a psychopath.
This is the Bad Place.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •I think part of the selection bias is that, at least in politics, you get accused of being an arsehole, in it for yourself, power-hungry, generally a bad person, etc.
If you are those things and/or a psychopath, you don't care and carry on. If you're not, those things take a toll on your mental health until you have to stop.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •The only things I regret about that are that it left other people who I respect/are friends in the lurch a bit, and I miss stuff like FCC.
Glad I gave it up though. It was killing me. Possibly literally.
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •I suspect I was on the way out the door anyway. Maybe if I'd hung on for another year, being chair of FCC might have given me enough of a seat at the table to offset the issues.
But I don't think I had the right mindset then to focus on just that and make the most of it.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I think the issue is that thanks to press / media (run by sociopaths / psychopaths) the electorate are duped into believing that these sociopaths / psychopaths are 'strong' and will make 'strong leaders'.
Jacinda Arden is probably an example of a non-sociopath politician debunking that lie.
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in reply to Sylvia Knight • • •Seriously? You think that inciting a right-wing mob with out and out lies to violently attack The Capitol isn't psychopathic behaviour?
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Yes definitely.
I'd also add Mark Drakeford, most of the SNP and Scottish Greens TBF.
There are few in Labour, LibDems and England/Wales Greens. Not in senior positions sadly.
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