[shrubby]

I'm thinking about the study by Erich von Holst where few minnows were lobotomised and returned to the shoal.

Afterwards these were returned to the shoal and they started dominating.

Moral development levels by Kohlberg tell a similar story where L1 is the narcissist (Zuck, Trump,...) level. Lobminmows. The current societal level or at least the direction.

L2 is the conventional moral as in the shoal that most of us follow. This level imitates the normal. See Musk as a prime example of the change. You can also revert to L1 by trauma, addiction...

L3 is the post conventional level where you do what's right and can differentiate between normal and right.

So L1 arrested development.

L2 herd moral and narrow empathy. Them vs. us being the right thing.

L3 being universal compassion.

L1 controls the airspace and L2 follows the loudest even though everyone (except the very few who are L1) wants the society to be L3.

So whether we dare to grasp this will decide the faith of our children and also us as the time is running out and the power has concentrated to very few L1.

And IMO the left and the right in the politics are both L2, with minor differences and both have failed us and served L1.

L1 is zillionaire mindset.(Rushkoff and the Mindset) L2 is Banal evil (Hannah Arendt and Banality of Evil) L3 is true ethics or ephics where ethical theory comes to praxis.

Sorry, perhaps bit off-topic but this is fascinating in light of latest news from Greenland and Davos. The current wouldn't have happened though without the help of Zuck, Cambridge Analytica etc.

[judahmeek]

Anyone interested in learning more about this should read https://theauthoritarians.org/

[shrubby]

Thank you. This fits nicely in my Kobo curriculum.

[shrubby]

Okay and thanks again.

I started reading this and it seems to be a good summary of what I'm thinking.

The authoritarian right wingers on both sides of the isle and the banal followers of the autoritarians.