Is there something about our chimpanzee brains that makes some of us attractid, at least some of the time, to people who are clearly bad and evil? I mean, i found this question like, deeply immersive while i was researching it, because there's so many different threads that try to explain why we are drawn to the wrong leaders. And what people like donald trump do very effectively is they have exploited something called an evolutionary mismatch. Our modern day skulls house a stone age mind, is how they put it. We actually have a sophisticated social environment in ways that primates may not,. which is to say that being the biggest and strongest person is no longer necessary to be the most powerful
Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? It’s a question that runs through the heart of the work of Brian Klaas, professor of global politics at University College London and Washington Post columnist. His latest book is 'Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us', which looks at the psychology behind those who seek power. Pulitzer-prize winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum speaks with Brian about what the book reveals.
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