The Code is the Design

Tried watching another popular motovlog yesterday for what seemed like an interesting topic, the Royal Enfield biker cafe in Goa. Within the first 5 minutes, the man almost destroyed the bike simply trying to shift it to neutral. He literally did almost everything from trying the electric start to nearly breaking the shift lever, but not the one simle thing he had to do to shift gears; move the bike. He then proceeded to botch a kick-start demonstration, in what was not even an old-school Enfield compression kicker. This is not an isolated individual though. The entire field of Motovlogging appears to be filled with people who know almost nothing about biking, but have huge followings. Not that every Motovlogger has to be a professional racer. But shifting gears and kick starting? Come on! But there are also a few individuals in the field who really seem to know their stuff. Guess there will always be those who do and those who talk, and time will separate the wheat fro

Psychologists mention how ASPD type people appear more attractive to the opposite sex. Psychologists also talk about super-stimuli. Is it possible that super-stimuli might affect both genders? The ability of ASPD types to effortlessly mimic behaviours that they know people are instinctively drawn to, may be a kind of super-stimuli that prevents people from forming more normal attachments. This may also be helped by the media portraying extreme characteristics as more normal than they are; things like excessive confidence and effortless charm etc, which are more characteristic of NPD and ASPD types. Using gender-neutral terms here because the argument applies equally to both visual and psychological stimuli. ASPD psychological tactics may be a kind of super stimuli too, not just the NPD visual ones. Push-Pull etc are well known psychological ploys of control. This is extending that argument to more psychological stimuli. 

Understanding and dealing with the motives and tactics of the sociopaths and psychopaths around us.