The political-sociopath doomsday clock moves forward
Can the species survive the extinction of moral philosophers?
Willie Sutton robbed banks "Because that's where the money is."
Sociopathic narcissists are attracted to politics in a Leviathan state as the United States has become because that's where power, fame, and riches are. Sociopaths cannot be trusted with power because they are ignoramuses and act only with sordid ulterior motives. If our Leviathan state were downsized to Switzerland, sociopaths would flee from politics.
The only completely trustworthy politicians are moral philosophers like Diogenes or Socrates. But they generally resist because they are preoccupied with moral excellence and mastering their own hormonal instincts. They have no desire to influence or control others except by example. They know no human is so saintly as to justify telling or ordering others how to live or find fulfillment.
As the United States Government has grown from a tiny acorn into a mighty multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex, its infestation by sociopaths has climbed past the danger point. From George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison to Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush represents a catastrophic plunge in wisdom, character, and moral philosophy--like regressing from Copernicus to Ptolemy.
Education is our deliverance. Sociopaths must be driven from politics like Jesus threw out the money changers from the temple.
"Education is our deliverance. Sociopaths must be driven from politics like Jesus threw out the money changers from the temple".
Indeed he did, but education itself is not the answer as, for some personalities, it makes them more effectively dangerous, if that was their disposition.
Check in with the sociopath of Tel Aviv, a brilliant political operator, perhaps one of the worlds best public speakers, a Class A manipulator who comes very well educated and a former elite American corporation consultant but now with his track record of lying and personal corruption, the game slips away.
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Interestingly, it was Russia that was supposed to collapse rather than the many so-called democracies around the world, foundering on their internal contradictions. Whatever The West has stood for, the Leadership achieves diametrical outcomes.
That class of humanities educated frauds is dealt with here, among other things . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/ukraine-notes-the-long-proxy-war