this a very fascinating article
This certainly describes me
Some of the more intriguing results involve the empathizer/systemizer scale. Empathizers identify with another person’s emotions, whereas systemizers are driven to understand the underlying rules that govern behavior in nature and society. Libertarians, unlike both liberals and conservatives, scored very high on systemizing. The authors note, “We might say that liberals have the most ‘feminine’ cognitive style, and libertarians the most ‘masculine.’ ”
This is very interesting. I think of psychology as a type of psuedo-scientific bullshyt, but that this description is very accurate for me.
Taking various measures into account, the researchers report that libertarians “score high on individualism, low on collectivism, and low on all other traits that involved bonding with, loving, or feeling a sense of common identity with others.” Haidt and his fellow researchers suggest that people who are dispositionally low on disgust sensitivity and high on openness to experience will be drawn to classically liberal philosophers who argue for the superordinate value of individual liberty. But also being highly individualistic and low on empathy, they feel little attraction to modern liberals’ emphasis on altruism and coercive social welfare policies. Haidt and his colleagues then speculate that an intellectual feedback loop develops in which such people will find more and more of the libertarian narrative agreeable and begin identifying themselves as libertarian. From Haidt’s social intuitionist perspective, “this process is no different from the psychological comfort that liberals attain in moralizing their empathic responses or that social conservatives attain in moralizing their connection to their groups.”
I don't know why I was drawn to libertarianism, but It happened very quickly and at a young age. by the time I was 20, I was a full-on libertarian.
I have always valued independence. I don't like relying on other people. I have never wanted to be part of a group. I prefer being by myself. It doesn't bother me like it bother's some people.
I was "different" in Highschool. I always tried to be ahead of the game when it came to fashion, music, and culture. I remember I was wearing Alpha-numeric, Tripple 5 soul, and stuff like Ecko, WAY before everyone else was. I prided myself in being able to call trends and to be somebody who knew how the crowd was moving but was never a part of the crowd.
I was hip to LRG in like 2000. I always knew about the biggest rap star before he was famous. moreover...I don't like when people wear the same cloths as me. I don't like when I hear people listening to the same music as me. The minute I see more than 3 people with the same type of outfit or listening to the same tracks, I have always thought to myself, "fukk, this is played out". I guess i was a hipster, before there were hipsters. I definitely have always felt comfortable in, what are today's, hipster spots. It wasn't for hipsters when I was young, it was just for "different' people I guess.
I can't really describe it. I really do not like being part of a group. and when I think about it, all my friends have the same type of mindset. My wife has the same type of mindset. My sister, My father and my mother have the same mindset. We are all drawn to the same people. We don't have any control over it, and I don't think we chose our mindsets either. It's forced into us somehow.
