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Some of the most damaging people I have met are people that you are absolutely enthralled with when you first get to know them.
by Workaccount2 3y ago
Some of the most damaging people I have met are people that you are absolutely enthralled with when you first get to know them.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoTrue, and some of the most effective people I know haven’t been impressive when you first meet them. I’m now extremely wary of blusteringly confident, glib talkers. Experienced a high correlation between these traits and sociopathy.
- geraldhh 3y agoquite sure it's just unlucky ppl that got rewarded for acting like this
- rqtwteye 3y agoThat would apply probably to most famous entrepreneurs. Whatever I have read about Jobs, Musk, Gates and others, they all are very willing to abuse people to achieve their goals.
- maest 3y agoA => B <> B => A though
- coffeebeqn 3y agoFirst impressions is a sales skill
- baq 3y agoThere’s a whole extremely famous book series on this very topic, you might have heard about it. The first volume’s title is ‘Paul is bad’ but it’s more widely known as ‘Dune’.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoDune is about worms.
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- HorizonXP 3y agoThis is a deep cut. And c’mon, you can’t blame people for thinking Paul’s the good guy. He’s badass. It’s a great story. It’s when fiction becomes non-fiction that it’s a problem.
- stavros 3y agoWhy is Paul bad? I read the books years ago but don't remember him being especially malicious.
- southernplaces7 3y agoWell, as Paul Atreides himself explains in the sequel to Dune, his Fremen Jihad causes the death of over 60 billion people throughout the empire. You can safely guess that the vast majority of them are innocent ordinary people, but just not important enough to pause over on the path to grand prophetic dreams. Basically, from when he takes power again, he becomes a genocidal monster in charge of an army of murderous fanatics, and then he spreads this right across the empire, well beyond Arrakis itself where he already caused all kinds of chaos. The story is a classic narrative of hoped-for ends being used to justify horrible actual means, but cloaked in space opera.
- stavros 3y agoHmm I see, thanks. Is this in the first book? I don't quite remember that.
- southernplaces7 3y agoNo, it's in the second book actually, (spoiler alert) which covers the time in which Paul's rule has been firmly developed following his enormously bloody jihad across the Empire, and the time after his death, after which his son Leto succeeds hims and lets himself be symbiotically covered in baby sandworms to turn into the eventual god emperor of the Imperium, ruling for 3000 years. (If I remember correctly)