full post here...https://peakd.com/hive-122315/@lucylin/dismantling-the-technocracythe-mathematics-of-mid-witterypart-2
@steampunkkaja .....(in bold)
I think you give the mid-wits too much credit....
You can't give credit to non sentient beings. (hence the retraction of 'accolades')
I used to subscribe to a blog run by my former history professor, and he thinks The Guardian is a reputable news source!
Professors are the midwits in today academic institutions.
They've infested the higher echelons, due to the midwits pack mentality - and the rewarding of socials skills - which they are very good at.
It becomes a self reinforcing mechanism - the most socially adept gain the rewards through adroit politicking, and not intelligence.
It's a positive feedback loop.
Nature abhors positive feedback loops - they create extreme instability in any given ecosystem.
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....his love of structured societies and authoritarianism to the fact that he was a military man, and had thus been thoroughly conditioned.
....OR.... looking at it from 'the cause' perspective (rather than 'the effect' ) ...He opted in , 100% voluntarily - to an authoritarian system. (by joining up to the military).
It seems logical to think that the love of authority already resided in his psyche, thus causing the action of joining up to what must be the ultimate in authoritarianism institutions...
(possibly from having low self esteem and abandonment issues and thus the need to feel in control and having an authoritarian figure (the military), that won't leave them...
They've yet to become fully fledged adults. (if they ever can).
My oldest sister is a teacher. She made it to headmaster then crumbled under "the pressure" as she says and had a mental breakdown and took 6 months off work.
She is a liberal as they get, self defeating, self loathing too.
The thing is though she may be 60 years old but she never grew up mentally.
Unless she is constantly told she is doing good she crumbles. Any critisism brings a mental breakdown on.
I put it down to the fact she has never left the classroom from school, to college, back to the classroom as a teacher.
At 60 she still has to be told how and what to think. There is no outside of the box, only safety and comfort in it. Or so she thinks.
Sorry for the late reply, I missed the notification.
First of all, I find it amusing that you think of mid-wits as "non-sentient beings," but also quite insightful, as it explains FAR too much. For example, I got into an argument with @baah at one point, in which I brought up something very similar, saying that "people can be turned into tools." He was rather belligerent in his insistence that people are actors, and that my insinuation that they can be turned into tools was "insipid." Sure, no entity ever controls other people (sarcasm). Likewise, I'm quite aware that people not only can surrender their free will, but those who do usually demand others surrender their free will "for the greater good." Cough cough @prydefoltz cough cough
"The subject is not content in his servitude if others are free." - @jacobtothe
Anyway, I'd like to clarify something about why I have doubts about my former professor's status as a mid-wit; I think he had an intellectual crisis at some point, and still doesn't quite know how to resolve it. I have better things to do than try to help him, since he surrounds himself, willingly or otherwise, with so many damn socialists, and my constant arguments with them always drowned out the points I was trying to make.
Despite being a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War, he seemed remarkably accepting of the fact that I was a communist at the time we met (I believed some weird shit as a teen-ager). Granted, I wasn't a tree-hugging vegan Antifa sympathiser, I was an unironic Soviet (despite being far too young to have grown up in the USSR), so I had a rather militaristic view of how society ought to be run at the time anyway. This is where the disagreements between us emerged - my professor, despite being a military man, is not at all fond of the Military-Industrial Complex that is so pervasive in the modern United States, and devotes so much of his blog to denouncing militarism in general. However, whenever he suggests how society should be run, he always defaults to a top-down, centralised system, probably because that's all he's ever known.
The real question then, is "how would someone who is not a mid-wit resolve such an internal crisis?" I could make a guess, based on my own experience, but unless one comes to the same conclusion as I did, I can't say if the process would be the same as well.