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Exploring the Minimal Self: Narcissism, Politics, and Our Collective Psyche With Elijah Emery

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The Politics of the Psyche

A lot of the assumptions that he was talking about built into say ego psychology or behavioral psychology are still super relevant. And as we have to model politics on something like a model of the individual mind. It's interesting when you think about all the political temperament shit that we've seen for the past 15 years, but it's hard to explain the past with it. The biggest predictor of political temperament seems to be either genetic or age and then how do you explain the fact that that we weren't evenly distributed politically? That's really a post 1980s phenomenon where political temperaments and political ideology are aligned.

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