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There are lots of people that I consider to be quite dickish, who actually do change minds and reinforce minds to maintain dickish beliefs.

The cases I know of where that’s true, are people who either were handed some power and authority, or developed it with a small group of people very fast then held on to whatever patent or corporate ownership necessary to keep it. Like a millionaire I once meant, he said he was the CEO and the Chairman of the Board and everyone on the board worked for the company, that is, for him. So, when it came time to re-elect him as Chairman, they didn’t have much choice.

Any other examples I can think of, are people passing on bad ideas that appear to have some benefits. When you are trying to convince people that they are the result of unemotional processes over which they have little control and that they are not special, I don’t think the dickish approach is the way to go.