Summary of Brian Klaas's Corruptible

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The story of Beacon Island is a tale of two islands. On October 28, 1628, a 160-foot-long spice ship called the Batavia set sail from the Netherlands. The trading vessel was part of a fleet owned by the Dutch East India Company, a corporate empire that dominated global trade.
#2 When the ship broke apart, Cornelisz was one of the few who survived. He eventually made it to the refuge of soggy sand on what is now Beacon Island. The chaos and anarchy of survival instincts reverted to the established order of hierarchy and status.
#3 The island of Ata, in the Tongan archipelago, was the home of six boys who ran away from their boarding school in 1965. They stole a fishing boat and started sailing north. On the first day, they only made it five miles before they decided to drop anchor and rest for the night. As they tried to sleep, a strong storm tossed around their boat, ripping away the anchor and destroying the rudder.
#4 The boys were shipwrecked on a remote island, and were saved by an Australian named Peter Warner. They were brought back to Tonga, and were reunited with their families.

Sujets

• Psychopathology
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355915
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Brian Klaas's Corruptible
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The story of Beacon Island is a tale of two islands. On October 28, 1628, a 160-foot-long spice ship called the Batavia set sail from the Netherlands. The trading vessel was part of a fleet owned by the Dutch East India Company, a corporate empire that dominated global trade.

#2

When the ship broke apart, Cornelisz was one of the few who survived. He eventually made it to the refuge of soggy sand on what is now Beacon Island. The chaos and anarchy of survival instincts reverted to the established order of hierarchy and status.

#3

The island of Ata, in the Tongan archipelago, was the home of six boys who ran away from their boarding school in 1965. They stole a fishing boat and started sailing north. On the first day, they only made it five miles before they decided to drop anchor and rest for the night. As they tried to sleep, a strong storm tossed around their boat, ripping away the anchor and destroying the rudder.

#4

The boys were shipwrecked on a remote island, and were saved by an Australian named Peter Warner. They were brought back to Tonga, and were reunited with their families.

#5

I’ve been studying the question of whether worse people get power, and if so, how it affects their behavior. I’ve found that while some do become worse after gaining power, others don’t.

#6

I once visited Madagascar to meet with the yogurt kingpin, Marc Ravalomanana. He had grown up poor, but became president and ruled over the island’s fast-growing economy.

#7

When Ravalomanana took over as president, he was accused of being extremely corrupt. He had spent $60 million of state funds on a presidential aircraft, and tried to license it to himself rather than to the government. It was a bloodbath when his opponents marched on the palace, and he was overthrown in a coup d’état.

#8

The idea that power corrupts is a common one, but is it true. Some people seem to be immune to the corrupting effects of power, and it seems that those people should not have power.

#9

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study that showed how ordinary people, when given the right conditions, can become sadistic. However, it did not take into account how the participants were recruited. Those who responded to the ad for prisoners and guards were disproportionately sadistic.

#10

The idea that we, as humans, are drawn to giving power to the wrong people for the wrong reasons is supported by the fact that children and adults don’t have radically different cognitive processing when picking who should lead them.

#11

There is evidence that suggests that people in power do bad things not because they’re a bad person, but because they’re stuck in a bad system. If that’s the case, then our focus should not be on powerful individuals, but on repairing our broken systems.

#12

Power corrupts, and the corruptible are drawn to it. We are drawn to bad leaders for bad reasons, and so we give them power. Focusing on the individuals in power is a mistake because it all depends on the system.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Why do we, as humans, create societies that inevitably make a small group of people powerful and a large group of people powerless. To understand our present, we must travel back in time and meet the last common ancestor between humans and chimpanzees, CHLCA.

#2

The drive to reach the top, which is a very risky business, is not present in all of them. You may have very large males who are happy with position number three.

#3

The human accelerated region is 118 bases of DNA that separate us from chimps. Some of those changes are meaningless, but some are crucial and provide a blueprint to make sure we have two arms and that those arms are attached to our upper torso rather than sprouting out of our head.

#4

We developed a sense of fairness that led us to share rewards with others, even if they didn’t cooperate with us. This instinct evolved in humans, and it is what makes us want to cooperate with others, instead of just dominate them.

#5

The !Kung, a group of hunter-gatherers in Africa, have a strange ritual known as insulting the meat. It’s a ceremonial humiliation meant to cut the hunter down to size. With that clever bit of social engineering, every family gets equal credit for feeding the band.

#6

The history of our species, Homo sapiens, is a history of hierarchy. We have evolved from a species that lived in nonhierarchical societies to a species that lives in hierarchies. With ranged weapons, killing became more about brains and skill than brawn and size.

#7

The development of ranged weapons changed what the fittest meant when it came to survival of the fittest.