Reminds me of that neuroscientist who was looking at signs of psychopathy in brains. He needed like 500 for the study and only had like 487 so he got some friends and family to give him theirs and threw in his own too. When the study was over and they went to unblind the results it turned out he had a psychopath brain. He was like,“in retrospect, a lot of the time I did wonder why other people found (x/y/z) so disturbing when it didn’t bother me at all.” Except nobody who’s ever actually worked with a neuroscientist was surprised in any way.
People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.
It turns out a bunch of CEOs are lowkey psychopaths for exactly the reasons you state and idk that I like where that’s led us. I think the better answer is continually educating people on their both right and obligation to routinely engage in self political representation. People keep voting red or blue once every 4 years and expect those people to make decisions in their best interest in that time. Like that’s not even just a two party problem at that point it’s like. Who’re your local judges? Who’s in charge of your school board? Who’s the police chief? Do you bother them about shit on the regular? I won’t say I’m great at that but that’s the issue. Everybody just needs to be more involved. Everywhere. All the time.
Reminds me of that neuroscientist who was looking at signs of psychopathy in brains. He needed like 500 for the study and only had like 487 so he got some friends and family to give him theirs and threw in his own too. When the study was over and they went to unblind the results it turned out he had a psychopath brain. He was like,“in retrospect, a lot of the time I did wonder why other people found (x/y/z) so disturbing when it didn’t bother me at all.” Except nobody who’s ever actually worked with a neuroscientist was surprised in any way.
People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.
It turns out a bunch of CEOs are lowkey psychopaths for exactly the reasons you state and idk that I like where that’s led us. I think the better answer is continually educating people on their both right and obligation to routinely engage in self political representation. People keep voting red or blue once every 4 years and expect those people to make decisions in their best interest in that time. Like that’s not even just a two party problem at that point it’s like. Who’re your local judges? Who’s in charge of your school board? Who’s the police chief? Do you bother them about shit on the regular? I won’t say I’m great at that but that’s the issue. Everybody just needs to be more involved. Everywhere. All the time.