Rao’s continuing discussion of institutional pathology and the personality types that are encouraged (discovered?) within institutions is fascinating. [1, 2, 3] INTJs are clearly sociopaths in his model. So, you know, where’s all the power and money I’m supposed to have? I’m clearly a loser/clueless-INTJ. Sheesh. Alas.
The latest piece is a discussion of morality in light of this analysis after some pushback some readers. Interesting and thought-provoking stuff. One small snippet:
Sociopaths can be compassionate because their distrust only extends to groups. They are capable of understanding and empathizing with individual pain and acting with compassion. A sociopath who sets out to be compassionate is strongly limited by two factors: the distrust of groups (and therefore skepticism and distrust of large-scale, organized compassion), and the firm grounding in reality. The second factor allows sociopaths to look unsentimentally at all aspects of reality, including the fact that apparently compassionate actions that make you “feel good” and assuage guilt today may have unintended consequences that actually create more evil in the long term. This is what makes even good sociopaths often seem callous to even those among the clueless and losers who trust the sociopath’s intentions. The apparent callousness is actually evidence that hard moral choices are being made.
