Kalach
Filthy Apes!
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
Again: it's an exposé, not a conspiracy theory. He isn't hiding anything; he's leaking it. He isn't blowing up his part and lecturing with the grandiose pomposity of the average INTJ, he's just stating the facts. Obviously, he has an opinion, he's just not arrogant enough to believe it's the only one that counts.
That seems... not quite congruent with his actions. By, y'know, just a little bit. Once out in public he is, according to himself, the normal, average guy, just like everyone else, who saw things that worried him (even though he uses the present tense to describe them). Yet, the reason this normal, average guy is in public at all is--what? He didn't decide the institutional NSA has it all wrong? That no Congressman could help? He didn't decide that his opinion of what he saw was sufficient unto itself that he would be right to usurp the power and authority of the US government? And after that, he goes about it by just stating the facts? Not in any video I saw. He states the overview, short on detail, long on interpretation.
Also, so it's an exposé? So what? Any person can expose. Every person can. But why is he working on this one? I say, this particular "conspiracy" he has outed looks like the normal grist for any INTJ's mill--power, abuses, hidden action, grand authorities, and simple mistakes made by people who just don't understand what part they're playing in the bigger structure behind everything they do.
Come now. You know it makes sense. You're infatuated with an INTP. It happens.
We are kind of wonderful.
Well, sure. But I've read marketing books written by INTPs. A favorite and re-occuring imperative is "comprehensive analysis". Action comes after comprehensive analysis. And choices for action derive from policy. Always policy. That bothered me in the Snowden videos because he uses the word several times. "Might he be one of them?" I wondered. But I wasn't sure. It's not clear if he dislikes policy or embraces it. Sometimes he talks of policy as his own solution and other times he talks of it as inadequate to the task of leading choice.