@lucylin You are a truly intelligent and perceptive person... So tell me, why are you such a self-centered asshole? ?
Answer's are easy, but asking the right questions in the first place ?...Now that's the real skill...
Let me tell you a story.
I know you like to use stories to make your points.
Why,?
I dunno. Analogies, metaphors and the like are not required by myself to comprehend most concepts in their entirety, and mostly just serve as poor representations of the actual topic it hand, offering not much other more than word salad packaging.
(whether that is an attempt for the intellectually insecure to appear more credible or not, I dunno).
I'm more of a 'cut the shit and lets talk about specifics' kinda guy.
Not always, I might add.
Being the front man – 'the face of' several companies and enterprise over the years (all but one highly successful I might add), I'm more than capable of playing 'the social games' if need be.
So I'll dispense with the story idea I started with..
Let's cut to the chase..
You were 50% accurate, empirically speaking, with your opening sentence.
The rest is subjective conjecture.
I rated as being more self centred than 90% of people in a survey of over 250,000 people.
This is not the same as narcissism or egotism, where I rated in the bottom 20% and 5%, respectively, in said research.
As for being 'an asshole' – Thanks.
Being called an asshole in the land of low IQ narcissists, of those who prefer to think delusion is reality, who have zero charisma yet pretend to call themselves ' leaders', and openly express libtarded ideologies as being 'clever' – is a compliment, not an insult.
And a good self checking barometer, showing that the psychological cancer that IS DPoS, has not infected me.
And who said it is a meritocracy? It is rather a mix of plutocracy, technocracy and democracy. Money and free market economics rule, but also charisma and technical skills.
Plutocracy
an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.
Technocracy
an elite of technical experts.
...there is no democracy, with plutocracy - don't insult my – or your own – intelligence.
….but also charisma and technical skills.
Technical skills is covered in technocracy, no need to repeat yourself.
Charisma?...and who exhibits this, pray tell ?...
lolol seriously?
I've more 'charisma' in my little finger than the top 20 witnesses combined.
Charisma
A compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others.
....tag any account on blurt that you think that fulfills this criteria...thanks.
...I say this from 'being the front man' in different enterprises over the years, where 'charisma' WAS the essential ingredient in doing business over others competitors in what were all very competitive markets.
I've never seen myself in that way before, vis -a vis- charisma – but I must say, that after several years living in the putrid swamp of libtarded, personality disorded, psychological weaklings that infest DPoS, it has certainly brought it to light.
(I expect this perception will diminish once I leave blurt.)
So.....who has 'this charisma' in blurt that you speak of?
(apart from myself, obviously! Lol).
And what makes a person 'charismatic'?
....Id say, roughly speaking – a person who's own moral philosophy aligns seamlessly with their behavioural actions relative to their hierarchy of values, sculpted from the varied and extreme experiences offered to them in real life.
….which is why psychopaths (and narcissists to some degree, albeit far more shallow), seem to have 'charisma'
I only rated as 'average, mid range' in the 'psychopathic traits' department (in the above mentioned survey).
All successful societies emerge from free market economies ...So let's not get into the legal fictions/corporations, which are just governments and bureaucracy, and have as much to do with free markets as the witnesses have to do with charisma.
So why this whole essay about abusing caps lock, I don't know :P
You don't know?...
Seriously ?
Your very reply, IS the answer.
I rank v. low on the 'Machiavellianism trait' in said research program, (DPoS is a great environment to improve ones skills in this area if you would wish to*).
I'm not too sure I do.
It makes me feel dirty - and not in a guilt free, hedonistic fun way, but a truly filthy, self disgustingly, ashamed , dirty.
*It seems that over the years - and in the actual 'real world of business' - my 'charisma' has meant that I've never had to play such silly games to achieve my own successes....(moral philosophy and hierarchy of values over scheming and playing small, for the win - every time).
Do you know what a mix is? Or maybe, using a quote from your last post, I should say:
"I see no evidence of intelligence on any lucylin posts?"
After saying about my intelligence in the opening comment, it appears there's some emotional dis-regulation...?
(I could go into a whole post about what passive aggression means, but I won't).
Ah....A 'Mix'
The preferred method of discussion by the commie, libtarded, and intellectually insecure so as to create 'muddied waters'.
(trying to appear intelligent in confusion is much easier than in clear and concise intercourse).
Confusion is king in the world of the psychologically abusive interlocutor.
Clarity and point by point discussion is reviled by such psychological weaklings.
You can't muddy anything with point by point discussion.
Leftie commies HATE THIS.
And why wouldn't they? - Their entire delusional perspective of the world is based on NOT seeing things clearly.
There is no 'will to power' in the world of pragmatism and reality for the delusional.
I wonder if this is your defense strategy to survive the situation you live in or are you just looking for attention?
Of course I'm looking for attention.
This is social media.
Hellooooooooo ?
Defense strategy?
....In the online DPoS world of idiocy, transparent machinations, low IQ parasitism, and personality disorders oozing out of every orifice?
Fuck yeah – it's a defense strategy.
I also eat healthy foods, meat and veggies, as a defense strategy against parasites and infections...
You're inability to not* understand the system of DPoS and it's psychological abusive construct is on you.
(a case of ' it's hard to make someone understand something when their income relies on NOT understanding it ???').
...It took me about 6 months into steem to realize the truth of the system.
And I've been pushing back, fighting against it, ever since.
One motivated by my own moral philosophy and hierarchy of values.
I've also learned you really, truly – can't fix stupid.
(or willful ignorance, when your income or fragile view of the real world, depends on staying wilfully ignorant?).
I have many neighbors, all good people - who farm the land.
Who can't read or write.....and I'd put their level of intelligence waaaaaaaay above 90% of the people that I've ever met on DPoS.
(and if I was having to fight shoulder to shoulder in the trenches? - that number would go up to 99%).
That's why I'm leaving DPoS.
The failure is built in.
And no one has the clarity of thought -or motivation /intelligence/moral philosophy/moral hierarchy, to change anything.
YOU...CAN'T...FIX...STUPID...
I don't need to fight 'it'.
….I don't need to show up the totally screwed up economic model, and honey pot for the mentally deranged, that it is.
The DPoS selling points are only very attractive to the psychotic/ libtards/psychopath/narcissists.
(and for non charismatic moronic 'leaders' who like to think that 'they're a bit clever'..A losers paradise is so many ways).
Mentally healthy people do not need to consciously understand 'the why' of why this is the case.
They posses a fully functioning inner voice the libtarded morons/ collectivists, don't have...
INTUITION.
....And their intuition tells them that DPoS is 'wrong, somehow'. Without any need for intellectual dissection.
...And my fuck up for thinking that I, by highlighting all of this over the years, would ever change anything.
durrrr.....
Although, to be honest – MY MOTIVATION wasn't to white night and change the DPoS ecosystem into something positive and destroy the current cancer that it is (on so many levels).
My consciousness, moral philosophy, and intellect insisted that it was.
It wasn't.
It was the invisible 'guilt and shame' pathology from many years ago, that did that - pesky unconsciousness and un-reconciled emotional integrations of my own history..
I won't bother explaining this fascinating inner journey on blurt.
(I hope it will help many people in the future, though).
When you fail to understand basic economics (not some libtarded, commie, echo chamber telling you it's true), you fail to understand the mechanisms of life itself.
Unless you're part of the low IQ* parasitic vampire class who like to feed off the talents of others, due to lacking any real creativity of their own.
(curation rewards tax, anyone ?...lololol...if you don't now how fucked up this is, in a world based on competences leading to improvements – you know absolutely nothing).
*I say 'low IQ parasites' because the moderately intelligent ones at least understand how to 'farm' the productive individuals to maximise their parasitism. ...(like the US fed reserve for example).
Even ants understand this, with their own aphid farms...
But those 'weally cwever people' who 'run' DpoS....?..
Nooooo....
What does that say?....hmmm...
...if you haven't noticed - all the talented individuals run from DPoS over the years, Molyneux, styx, de longho, rose, even 'intelligent lefties' like (forgotten her name, had a few run in's with her on steem).
Do you not see 'the trend'?
As time progressed across all platforms, the same dynamic (down votes or no), emerged.
'Talent and creativity leave'....Sounds like a great recipe for growth, wouldn't you say?...lolol
It's not failure of free markets, it's a failure of the DPoS system itself.
It's an infestation of lefty commie libtards in 'power', who truly believe they're clever....bless...
You know, those who think utopian delusions will become real if you say them often enough, such as...
the systems that operate in nature are based on balance and harmony.
Hmmm.....really ?...like reeeeeeeealy..?
However, the systems that operate in nature are not based on "intelligence" but on balance and harmony.
Hahahahahah – you really are delusional, my friend.
(or maybe I misjudged your IQ/psychological landscape?)
ALL... OF...NATURE...OPERATES...ON...PRINCIPLES OF... CONFLICT...
('intelligence', is irrelevant).
….have you never read Darwin theories?.... or 99.9999% of any anthropological literature? ...or philosophies from classical Greece, onwards?)...
If you do not understand this most basic mechanism of nature, you really UNDERSTAND NOTHING.
It means that all of your perceptions are based on lies/illusions/delusions.
...any - AND ALL - 'balance and harmonies' are the PRODUCT of conflict..
'Balance and harmony' ?...A temporary, illusionary state depending entirely on who's perceiving it, and what subjective time frame they are operating on.
Conflict in nature is never ending and constant.
It occurs with every violent metabolic process happening in your body, 24/7 – and in every single living organism that has ever lived.
But if you wanna go with 'the systems that operate in nature are based on balance and harmony.', you do that.
It says far more about your own inner landscape and your perceptions, than it does about anything in the external world.
'Weak men make hard times'
Weak men are victims of their own decadent cultures.
You really do need to sort out your critical thinking skills.
First principles (the enemy of the world salad, and post modernist/commie/libtarded thinking, actor.
Actor = playing someone who they are not, such as 'a not very clever person', pretending that they are).
I can now see clearer, why you think DPoS is a valid system.
You now have the dubious honor being the first account ever to be put on my 'reply disabled list'...
NOT BECAUSE I FEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY...
I look forward to your opinions.
It's because I wish to have your own opinions/ comments/ perspectives shown on your own post/timeline/feed….and not hidden away in my comments section.
" If you ain't sure enough of what you have to say about anything, and have a moral philosophy and hierarchy of values that makes you stand up in the face of dissent - best stay quiet and leave it to the grown ups.."
I look forward to your reply.
(tag it @lucylin for me, would ya?)