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Sounds interesting. Can you copypaste it or smth?

Yeah, I screwed up cause 3 AM. Invested a lot of time on it too.

Won't steal the name, don't worry.

Lisp is right on Yellow Bile.

Sounds right except for the work part.

Both empathy and the lack of it are required. Humans are pack hunters. We work best as teams. Someone has to lead those teams. Guess what traits tend to make for people better at securing and conserving power within groups, and keeping loyalty within their ranks? Yep, you guessed it! Psychopaths! :D

There are benevolent leaders, yes, that exists, but in a competition where anything goes, a psychopath which is difficult ton detect will have the advantage over someone with more empathy and robust moral limits.

There's a reason why they're roughly estimated to be around 10% of the population. Hierarchies need few leaders. The higher the ladder, the more vicious the psycho it gets, because they'll have to be competent enough to defend themselves from the other psychos that want all their tasty tasty power.

The reason why all our leaders are psychopaths is this is the same reason why basketball players are all tall. If you don't have that trait, you just don't get the fucking job (edit: unless you're like REALLY good at it despite your disadvantage).

This used to depress me, but I chose to stop thinking about it. I don't think there's any fixing it.

Err... I'm not trolling or taking any sides here but couldn't that also be claimed about communism? And the vast majority of monarchies if you start your analysis then... And I guess if we look at the current day, one could argue contemporary democracy tends to devolve into fascism...

But, you know, It's almost like the systems in use are irrelevant when there are generalized hostile war scenarios with huge foreign threats that might exterminate your nation state or make it implode through sabotage... And this seems to happen roughly every hundred years or so.

And after the horrors of war, the general population unifies to pick up what's left and swear they will never let anything like this happen again. But then they have kids and grandkids that are like "oh, gramps you so silly".

A basic notion of history and some critical thought shows us this has happened time and time again, the only significant contemporary difference being the existence of aerial and nuclear warfare.

Empires have life cycles, and they get old. Then they get corrupt and other empires start challenging them... And then you have a big big war, and then someone wins, and then people calm down for roughly 50 years... and on and on it goes.

Politics isn't what it seems? what are we, 12? How is this news¿

I mean I appreciate you posting to give room for conversation but like... Did anyone really not assume this by now?

edit: Also, I tried reading but it paywalled me.

f... I can't believe I screwed this up.

edit: the more I think about it, the more choleric it makes me.

Pretty good. Thanks for asking. Currently doing some late night coding. How are you doing?

I'm a solid 3 rn.

I mean people who like those just seem like happier ppl to me.

Yellow is melancholy, which is defined as "a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause". This sounds like C++ to me. And I hear cobol is one of the most infuriating programming languages based on sentiment analysis data of stack overflow, so black bile, which is choleric/angry.