Power attracts projection. People excuse elite misconduct to preserve the illusion that dominance is earned rather than contingent, that wealth signals wisdom rather than the accumulated accidents of structure, timing, and luck. That projection is not merely psychological; it stabilises the system by protecting the myth that status reflects virtue. Predatory opportunism thrives in that […]
Context: The Appearance of Robots Affects Our Perception of the Morality of Their Decisions Curious: “People consider moral decisions made by humanoid robots to be less ethically sound than when another human or traditional-looking robot makes the same decision.” The uncanny valley rides again. This is a particular instance of a general principle. The apperception […]
…and this, this is the yawning abyss at the heart of Democracy; that is, it is a system so exquisitely poor at selecting individuals of sufficient aptitude, intelligence and enduring moral character to perform the roles into which they might find themselves unwittingly flung.
Daedelus Kite 