therefore it relies on deep, ancestral faculties.
To add technical detail as a starting point for a deeper dive. Primate level cognition and metacognition, on the level that humans consider setting us apart from "lower animals ", is based in the Neocortex, which evolved long after the Old Mammalian and Reptilian brains, both of which still make up the bulk of human braincase content. Dark Triad individuals can perform dumb AF at tasks and skills that run on neocortex circuitry, yet some can greatly outperform their "intellectual " peers at crafty self serving and group dynamic manipulation. It makes me think of the terabytes of Naughty Dog shorts showing how creative canines can be at getting something placed out of their reach, often gaming humans and other dogs with rather detailed multi step schemes requiring forethought and planning. The underlying brain circuitry driving such behaviors evolved EONS before we clever monkies built our neocortex atop it.
It can require a LOT of neocortex processing time, for a trusting intellectual type. To detect when a seemingly dumb person is successfully manipulating them by outperforming at using these older brain circuits.
Lol, autocorrect kept trying to change Neocortex to Neocon. NOOOOOOO!
Read MoreYeH, it took me quite a while to figure out what's up, but once you pinpoint it it's self evident.
"Intelligent" necessarily means higher cognitive function activation. Machiavellianism is an evolved social strategy (albeit parasitic), therefore it relies on deep, ancestral faculties. They can do it without understanding how.
The few psychopaths that have come out in the open lately woth books and podcasts explaining how they function are exceptions, and they too can miss quite a bit about how they really go about.
I'm not sure as for the machiavellianism. I don't think a fool is capable of the tactic and foresight for it.
I'm here to warn men: individuals can function very poorly by cognitive measures, yet actually EXTREMELY skilled at manipulating people socially and emotionally. I got tangled up once with a real Lucifers Daughter. Figured initially would make a convenient fuck buddy and easy to discard. Ended with her breaking into my house as I slept, AFTER screwing all the doors and windows shut from the inside, and repeatedly disappearing into thin air when the increasingly skeptical cops arrived. Glorious was the day I finally got my day in court for a restraining order, and she had the poor sense to show up to contest it WITH active arrest warrants. Bottom line: never get complacent assuming low cognition means safe from high Machiavellian function level!!!
Read MoreYes, naturally, intelligence is a product of evolution.
I believe the dimension of machiavellianism is independent of intelligence (re @Vermillion-Rx). It has to do with using other humans, as opposed of using nature. So, if human society is considered something positive, machiavellianism is basically parasitism. It's a strategy.
You can have stupid machiavellians. You see them everywhere. They try this and that small con. They eventually end up playing only with other stupids, because a smart guy figures them out.
Something I, and others, have been pondering, is the natural limit to intelligence. There's this unsolvable problem, death, for which there isn't a solution. We basically deal with it deceiving ourselves in a way or another. A bit too intelligent, and you might lose that capability, making you insane. The mad genius archetype, the bright kid who ends up with schizophrenia, etc.
And something that I have been pondering, is another problem of the same magnitude as death: realizing that your mother is not protective, but is taking advantage of you. The devouring mother is probably another route through which bright kids end up mentally unstable.
Read MoreAha. So the Marxist Jews had been lying through their teeth the whole time, arguing against the creation of a Jewish state and for internationalist solidarity, so that others would forego their national identity and they, the Jews, would setup their own state instead.
Diabolical.
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I figure a revulsion reaction to “socialism” is a deeply ingrained cultural phenomenon of Americans
Indeed. It's used as a thought-stopper: "this smells like socialism, don't even think about it"!
Now, the claims about Marxism and the Jews... It's actually quite simple, but you need to dig a bit to the emergence of the ideology, not its (mis)application.
Marx was a Jew. There was not a Jewish state back then. So, Jews worldwide either had to imagine a state of their own (as mercenaries to global forces, which is what came to be), or imagine an abolition of all borders and a fraternity of all humans, whereby they would be OK with just the human identity. That was Marx's vision. In total contrast to Zionism.
That's why it's ridiculous when people (Hitler as well) paint socialism as a Jewish conspiracy.
Read MoreEmpty Spaces from the movie Pink Floyd, The Wall. The opening flowers scene is a Red Pill statement unto itself. The overall theme regards humans in a world of limitless consumer excess of ability to accumulate literally any material good, yet still in their deepest core feeling profoundly unhappy.
When this movie came out, my Dad took the whole family to see it in the theater. As a young teen, I knew some Pink Floyd music, but the themes and images herein were a real mind fuck that I was not quite prepared for.
Im long lost about where do you place NSDAP. NATIONALIST yes, socialist also yes?
Far right, simple as that.
By "socialist" they refered to their own nationals, and populist measures were basically fattening the pigs before the slaughter. Hitler's obsession was against Marxists (which he conflated with Jews), and he specifically declared that they had nothing to do with these kind of socialists.
AFAIK there was a more "anticapitalist" faction within the Nazi party, (populist rather than socialist, though) and these were exterminated by Hitler early on. But I'm not much of a history buff, someone else might fill in the specifics.