• GluWu@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    The thing they all share is that they are deeply unloved. Trump, musk, bezos, zuck, none of them have healthy loving families. They have noons they can genuinely connect with. And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need. But it never does, so they just keep going not realizing the path they chose doesn’t end anywhere near what they desire. Money will never buy love and peace.

      • Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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        5 days ago

        Don’t try and downplay the affect of connecting with noons on the human psyche. They are an evil scourge and should be eradicated. This is exactly the kind of thing a noon would post.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.

      If that was all it was, then I’d feel sorry for them. No, they’re trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they’re horrible people.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

      Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

      What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Man, I should have became an authoritarian ruler.

        Instead I became isolated and I haven’t had a visitor in over a decade.

        Fuck it. Vote for theangryseal!

        For real though, maybe if I hadn’t ever used drugs haha. I had a lot of “friends” when I was living in that world. Might have stopped me. :p

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    5 days ago

    I just started reading this book about Facebook and I am amazed how little they cared about how much power they had, and how oblivious they were of it.

    These are companies that rule the world, but don’t know what they want with it, other than for it to generate profit