Comment by neovialogistics
4 years ago
I initially came across it in somebody's review of The Red Queen but idk who. The book isn't exactly a must-read, though.
I was skeptical at first but I keep seeing the behaviour around me.
4 years ago
I initially came across it in somebody's review of The Red Queen but idk who. The book isn't exactly a must-read, though.
I was skeptical at first but I keep seeing the behaviour around me.
Taking credit for unearned wins while sloughing off deserved blame isn't general to hominids; the name for that pathology is narcissism. I'm not saying you're wrong to diagnose certain persons or organizations with that, but "cynical" is right.
You misunderstand. I'm not talking about manufacturing unearned credit or totally eliminating earned blame, I'm talking about distorting existing, deserved credit/blame to be moderately larger/smaller.
So, some organizations or individuals have a tendency to do this, and the tendency can be measured on a spectrum. There's an opposing spectrum that you're excluding, right? The people who take blame for things they rightly don't have to take blame for, who clean up messes that aren't their responsibility, and who shun credit. There are those people, and (we) keep the world running.
Claiming that the psychology you're projecting is universal is cynical because it excludes those people, or worse attempts to paint their efforts as merely meta-narcissistic victimhood, when lots of people actually just try to correct problems and get shit done.
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