True, but do heros have power? My heros are generally powerless. It’s that they managed to do great things in spite of this that earns my hero’s respect.
Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we’re talking about like “my granma”, anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.
Thinking more like Rachel Carlson, author of Silent Spring. Social cred now, sure, but she was an obscure marine biologist toiling away for a pittance at the time.
Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carlson, E.O. Wilson, and many many more. I wonder how many I would find assholes if I ever met then on a street, or had them over for dinner.
My dad was a linguist, so he’d met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn’t listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he’d say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.
Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.
That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.
Could be, you never know. But I doubt Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson went to epstein island. But great point. Epstein coveted intelligentia deliberately.
(Here. Are. Some. Sources). These are pop articles. Below are some quotes from papers. I go on about this topic a lot!😂
“Recent evidence has demonstrated that empathic responses are modulated by social power.”
“high-power people show low empathic accuracy compared to low-power people”
“numerous studies have shown that people with high power are less accurate in recognizing others’ emotional expressions”
“higher socioeconomic status is associated with reduced neural responses to the pain of others”
“experiments using fMRI indicates that power promotes greed … displayed decreased response in the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating a weaker restrain of self-interest when processing receiving more than others”
“Power decreases empathic concern”
“powerholders may experience less distress and less compassion as well as exhibit greater autonomic emotion regulation when faced with the pain of others”
“elevated power impedes accurate understanding of other people’s emotional expressions”
“Elevated power is associated with heightened interest in rewards while low power is associated with increased attention to the interest of others”
“In face-to-face conversations, participants disclosed experiences that had caused them suffering. As predicted, participants with a higher sense of power experienced less distress and less compassion and exhibited greater autonomic emotion regulation when confronted with another participant’s suffering.”
Powerful people just can’t help but be vile.
As you gain social power, the empathy centers in your brain are suppressed. “Power corrupts” has a neurological basis.
True, but do heros have power? My heros are generally powerless. It’s that they managed to do great things in spite of this that earns my hero’s respect.
Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we’re talking about like “my granma”, anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.
Thinking more like Rachel Carlson, author of Silent Spring. Social cred now, sure, but she was an obscure marine biologist toiling away for a pittance at the time.
Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carlson, E.O. Wilson, and many many more. I wonder how many I would find assholes if I ever met then on a street, or had them over for dinner.
My dad was a linguist, so he’d met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn’t listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he’d say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.
Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.
That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.
Could be, you never know. But I doubt Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson went to epstein island. But great point. Epstein coveted intelligentia deliberately.
That’s very interesting, do you have any source so I can read more about it?
I didn’t know it was scientific like that.
(Here. Are. Some. Sources). These are pop articles. Below are some quotes from papers. I go on about this topic a lot!😂
“Recent evidence has demonstrated that empathic responses are modulated by social power.” “high-power people show low empathic accuracy compared to low-power people” “numerous studies have shown that people with high power are less accurate in recognizing others’ emotional expressions”
“higher socioeconomic status is associated with reduced neural responses to the pain of others” “experiments using fMRI indicates that power promotes greed … displayed decreased response in the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating a weaker restrain of self-interest when processing receiving more than others” “Power decreases empathic concern” “powerholders may experience less distress and less compassion as well as exhibit greater autonomic emotion regulation when faced with the pain of others” “elevated power impedes accurate understanding of other people’s emotional expressions” “Elevated power is associated with heightened interest in rewards while low power is associated with increased attention to the interest of others”
“In face-to-face conversations, participants disclosed experiences that had caused them suffering. As predicted, participants with a higher sense of power experienced less distress and less compassion and exhibited greater autonomic emotion regulation when confronted with another participant’s suffering.”