There’s something deeply ironic about this understanding he and people like this have of some kind of dichotomy between the brain and the heart. The only reason their fucking imbecilic brains even have the plasticity to try and “reason” their way out of feeling empathy is because they have been kept healthy by the altruistic efforts of their fellow humans, which is likely downstream of the very empathy they treat like a liability.
There’s a type of ant parasite (a type of fluke I think?) that is classified as a “social parasite” because it takes advantage of ant eusociality. It infects a host ant and makes it smell and look more like a queen, and the other ants start to tend to it like they would a queen, meaning that they get overworked and sometimes even choose to care for the infected individual at the expense of their actual queen.
Edit: and the species’ name? Capitalensis inheritoraejust kidding
There’s something deeply ironic about this understanding he and people like this have of some kind of dichotomy between the brain and the heart. The only reason their fucking imbecilic brains even have the plasticity to try and “reason” their way out of feeling empathy is because they have been kept healthy by the altruistic efforts of their fellow humans, which is likely downstream of the very empathy they treat like a liability.
Narcissists pretty much require people with empathy to feed them.
Billionaire narcissists just get a wider supply, sometimes society wide, like if they get billions in subsidies backed by a cult of personality.
There’s a type of ant parasite (a type of fluke I think?) that is classified as a “social parasite” because it takes advantage of ant eusociality. It infects a host ant and makes it smell and look more like a queen, and the other ants start to tend to it like they would a queen, meaning that they get overworked and sometimes even choose to care for the infected individual at the expense of their actual queen.
Edit: and the species’ name? Capitalensis inheritorae
just kidding