Do I know anyone who participated in a 24/7 D/s relationship where the sub was *markedly* smarter than the dom?
I'm interested in what's psychologically appealing about these relationships. On the sub side, it seems like it's often a comforting release of control to someone else, coupled with a strong personal respect for the dom.
How does that work (or does it) when the sub is substantially smarter than the dom and knows it?
Also, I took two tests and got markedly different scores on each.
A 20+ point differences in my results for extraversion and openness, and a 50(!) point difference in my results on conscientiousness, between the two tests.
A divide between people who are consequentialists "at core" vs virtue ethicists "at core": do you feel more or less motivated act with virtue, if you guess that you're in a solipsist simulation, and other people don't exist.
If I was the only being in the universe, and this simulation was created for me, I feel more of an impulse to behave with virtue than if there are billions of other beings to impact, but my actions have an insignificant impact on the whole.
In the first case, I feel strongly motivated to "represent myself well" (to the simulators??).
My first, perhaps unflattering, thought is that males, on average, have a stronger internal sense of personal gender identity than females, who's sense of gender identity is more fluid and more socially informed.
More transwomen knew recognized that, before it was in the social mileue as an option.
I wonder if the reason why many people learn that it is more authentic and alive to trust their heart, rather than their own reason, is because their mind is pwned by parasitic memes that aren't aligned with their interests.
If you can't trust your own reasoning, because it's been coopted by a bunch of ideologies that are out to get you to various extents, and you're not smart enough (relative to those memes) to reason your way out of those errors, it probably DOES...
...work better to do "what feels right", even though the heart center has a lot less expressive capacity than the mind (the most complicated it is able to represent is much simpler).
#EconQuestion Why does anyone think that increasing aggregate demand stimulates the economy, on net?
True, if more people are spending, that's more revenue for businesses, and more dollars flowing through the economy.
But spending trades of directly with saving, which (if people are investing, or at least keeping their money in banks) flows through the economy as investment.
And a society saving more and spending less will have cheaper credit.
Overall, it seems better for the long run health and growth of a society for more resources to flow to investment than to consumption. Investment (generally) builds on itself more than consumption does.