 Alright, Brie asks, it seems as if a small number of sociopaths have dominated all of human history, Hitler, Stalin, etc. Is this true of would some other person do the same thing, what can we do to expose commented future bad actors so I mean I don't think that can't be true first of all if that were true then we wouldn't be here right we wouldn't we'd be we'd still be in caves or whatever histories be dominated ultimately by good now too little too rarely but what moves the world and what dominates the world is good otherwise again human life would be short miserable with the pathetic everything Hobbs thought it was and I also don't like calling these people sociopaths because they are guided by you know they might be but why being in psychology into this they are guided by particular ideas these ideas have consequences they are fulfilling those consequences and and I think it diminishes the world of ideas in what they do but just say yeah there's a bunch of crazy people out there doing horrible things and somehow they attain power somehow they're successful once in a while or dominantly as you would say no I mean for every Hitler and Stalin there was an America and a Britain that stood up to them and defeated them and there were good people on that side not ideal people Churchill was not ideal if you know Churchill but he was good when it came to World War two and even FDR was good when it came to World War two at least once the war was declared and and you know even though he was terrible before and so there is good in the world and good constantly is defeating evil notice the good constantly now too little too late but it does defeat it again otherwise you wouldn't be here so it's the way to look at the world is not unfortunately we learn history by focusing on all the horrible things that have happened we don't learn history by focusing all the great things that happen but again this put aside politics for Hitler and Stalin there is a there's a Newton and and there's an invent of the steam engine and there's an inventive of a chip technology and 99.999% of all the people who've done great things in the world you don't you've never heard of and they've done phenomenal things I mean the story of history is not a story of monsters it's a story of what's good in humankind think of it as a you know a giant or a hero you know making progress and being stung and set back by gnats and then occasionally the gnats warm together you know into some giant horror thing and then he beats it down but he never gets rid of the gnats and the question is why where are these gnats coming from why can't he you know get further and they're a constant presence and they're a problem what they are is something that's impeding the the good not some of them are for and also I really second the why sociopath I mean if you're not a licensed clinician forget the license license if you're not like professional clinician I think you should in general strike words like sociopath and anything that has like a diagnostic flavor from your vocabulary it's almost everybody uses these words as like fancy ways of saying jerk but if it's a fancy way of saying jerk just say jerk if it's more than jerk or you know something a little spicier than that it's because you have some specific scientific theory about what's causing this and how it worked it functions very likely that series false but if it's true fine but you've got to know it and that's the commitment in using that term I have no idea if Hitler had this or that diagnosis or even if the diagnoses are valid and then in any case what Hitler was not of particular impact historically what was of in there are always bozos like that around vicious evil people like that with whatever kinds of personality issues he had what's significant about Germany in that period is not Hitler but what it was that there let one of those guys come to power as head of the country whereas usually those guys aren't running a whole country right it's the other Germans that are the problem not Hitler and what's the cause of the other German if you want to look for your grand evil figures in history it's the people who are propagating the worst ideas so can't not Hitler but it's it's how they came to power and even about cotton you want to know like why was that influential why do these bad ideas if you take contest the source and we're not arguing for that now but of the source of some of the ideas that led to to modern problems it's not just he came out of nowhere like why were those ideas influential you want to think about like what is it that people are doing in their thinking that that makes them susceptible to wrong and what is it more importantly that they're doing when they're being right and how can we double down on that and excise the wrong thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me you get value 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