• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    huh?

    people with authority

    Oh, you misunderstand. I’m talking about authoritarians. You seem to have done some reading in the past. Do some more. theauthoritarians.org

    The people that form those bucket lines and search parties would, ironically, be more likely to be authoritarian in worldview, and therefore have the greatest psychological need to fix the problem.

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      1 day ago

      This touches the terrain of leadership and motivation, and I’d argue that authoritarianism is accidental here. Sure, here and there leaders with authoritarian views rise (e.g. Mussolini), but also people who do not believe in it so much (e.g. Che Guevara). There have been studies about the psychology of leaders and motivators, and they seem to be driven by a lot of energy and often certainty at least in some core ideas. There are books like A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness that go as far as to suggest these traits border the unhealthy in many notorious and strong cases.