full post here...@lucylin/dismantling-the-technocracythe-mathematics-of-mid-witterypart-2
I think you give the mid-wits too much credit....
You can't give credit to non sentient beings. (hence the retraction of 'accolades')
I used to subscribe to a blog run by my former history professor, and he thinks The Guardian is a reputable news source!
Professors are the midwits in today academic institutions.
They've infested the higher echelons, due to the midwits pack mentality - and the rewarding of socials skills - which they are very good at.
It becomes a self reinforcing mechanism - the most socially adept gain the rewards through adroit politicking, and not intelligence.
It's a positive feedback loop.
Nature abhors positive feedback loops - they create extreme instability in any given ecosystem.
....his love of structured societies and authoritarianism to the fact that he was a military man, and had thus been thoroughly conditioned.
....OR.... looking at it from 'the cause' perspective (rather than 'the effect' ) ...He opted in , 100% voluntarily - to an authoritarian system. (by joining up to the military).
It seems logical to think that the love of authority already resided in his psyche, thus causing the action of joining up to what must be the ultimate in authoritarianism institutions...
(possibly from having low self esteem and abandonment issues and thus the need to feel in control and having an authoritarian figure (the military), that won't leave them...
They've yet to become fully fledged adults. (if they ever can).