Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been wanting to write that title, and make this post for some months now.
I will confess I am very interested in "Morality" and the parts that both Good and Evil impulses, actions and thinking has played in my life, and yours...
I was struck at how the simple Dr Evil characters as played in childrens cartoons & comedy (both areas of public communictaions where the sophistication is stripped away, and communication deliberately made understandable were always "misunderstood and bullied" and their great Evil was simple striking out at those who had offended and marginalised them.
I was struck by how my childhood followed that particular paradigm very well indeed, until one day in my early twenties a particularly strong reefer taught (or reminded me) me that I needed to treat others as I would like to have been treated and not as they tended to treat me.
I still however am quite annoyed about many things, and in my own areas of competencies quite inclined to be autocratic, so I genuinely did wonder, do the Adolf Hitlers and other great evil people have a streak of what I have? I've had to make quiet an effort not to be a complete "goit"* on many an occasion... (* H/T to Arnold Rimmer)
Is this a real general tendancy in Autiistic behaviour, and could it be why the NT's (as a rule) make damn sure we never get into positions of power?
I think that the people who engineer themselves into positions of unaccountable power tend to be sociopaths and narcissists, especially pseudo-empathetic narcissists, rather than autistics.
I had Sociopathic tendencies growing up. It was all about me, and wanting to be the best. I came from a Family of Big Shots, and most of my relative forged excellent careers. I was the Salieri to their Mozart; I did have fantasies about killing people before.
Now, I realise, that it was my faith that kept my evil side at bay. My belief in God and Jesus. A lifetime of trusting too much has left me tired of others. Now, I see that my duty is to be of service, rather than be an A-Lister.
I would add all positions of power. To want to have power or to actively seek any kind of power over others is a sure sign that you're not a good human being.