Only Psychopaths Need Apply ...
Here’s a really telling piece of pop psycho-philosophy for our times.
| Who could she possibly mean? |
It’s Veronika Stepanova, a Russian online “psychologist” with a big youtube following, declaring that only a psychopath/sociopath (- ideally, a high-functioning one with a good IQ, natch -) is fitted to be a President. Unfortunately I haven’t got the direct link but you can view the relevant extract in this tweet.
In summary: to be a good President, it takes someone with a pathological drive for power who can follow the necessary path of listening only to himself, and not the law, without conscience or guilt. It’s hardly a novel thesis: indeed, it’s Nietzsche 1.01, The Will To Power, albeit expressed more artistically there. Only such a man can become a Beethoven, a Caesar, a Napoleon who were certainly all complete shits. Nietzsche included Goethe but I’m not sure that’s as clear an example. You can add your own favourites to the rollcall: many people put both Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson on the list, which (if that’s right) goes to show it’s a necessary characteristic but not a sufficient one.
(Ironically, it was of course Stepanova’s compatriot Dostoevsky who gave us a compelling of the “maybe necessary, but not sufficient” aspect, in Crime and Punishment.)
It’s also a view commonly held by many of our BTLers, who often include the sentiment that it’s why they despise all politicians. OK: but that still leaves a couple of key points to consider:
- It ain’t just politicians, is it? It’s great artists (per Nietzsche: consider Monet for example, another self-focused shit); business innovators (libel is libel and I’m sure we all have our nominees); scientists … and so it goes on.
- So – despise them or not: do we, actually, need them nonetheless? Nietzsche, of course, didn’t care about what “we” need, it was all art-for-art’s-sake with him. But George Bernard Shaw certainly thought we needed them: the hungry man had best follow the fat man, because fattie knows where the food is.
We are stuck with them! Lamentably, there are those who merely think they are Napoleons – Raskolnikov, Johnson – and we are stuck with them, too.
ND
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2022/06/only-psychopaths-need-apply.html
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The title “Only Psychopaths Need Apply” is exact, because to start with, the fact of “applying” implies a personal ambition. Ambition however was absent from some great leaders of the history world, who were chosen by the most high. One may think of King David, or some genuine saint kings or queens who knew not some nefarious ambitions. Some commoners have occasionally been presidents without shady intrigues, as if been drafted. Think of President Garcia Moreno of Ecuador for example, or again some commoners who imposed themselves in elections, just because they were “naturals”.
Those said leaders who more or less by accident arrived at full power, may have become psychopath later, as a mean to maintain their power. Then it became personal ambition.
This article leads to a burning question: Is President Vladimir Putin a psychopath? My personal answer is no, at the beginning, because he was chosen by a hidden hand for his instinctive qualities of practical understandings of real politic, as well as is vigorous stamina at making his decisions been obeyed. Has he become a psychopath after two decades? This is what the Western medias project, but again, is not Putin reacting to a provocation that he had no choice but to respond as the way he had always done? To that question, I personally think that Pr. Putin of the federation of Russia, will never be seriously be regarded as a psychopath. He never “applied” to be “Tsar”, and taking the favorable reports (Russian propaganda?), Putin just wanted to get rich,, and occasionally speaks of retiring as a Russian Champagne producer.