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There's a curiosly accurate psychological portrait of those people that I found in one book on a unrelated topic. Rephrased and reworded some parts to make it more acceptable on HN: "Those who separated by vanity, tended to drift together by similarity of tastes and contempt for others, even though their idiosyncrasy of vanity led to quarrelling among themselves. Separateness became much intensified, thoughts developing in an undesirable way, becoming more and more of a shell, shutting out others. Animal passions were starved out by cold asceticism, instead of being changed into human emotions; sex-passion was destroyed instead of being transformed into love. As a result, they tended towards sexlessness. They formed communities, but those never lasted for long, as no one would listen to each other and everyone wanted to rule. Attempts to help them were met with outbursts of resentment, as they took those attempts as a plan to belittle them. Pride grew stronger, they became cold and calculating, without pity and remorse."