Exousiology postulates three principles of mass behavior: materialism, or poor, overly concrete, consumptive, and degenerative taste (for example, preferring another Bugatti to funding exousiology, or placing little value on the sanctity of marriage, i.e. lacking proper disgust for butthole fetishists); narcissism, or egalitarianism; and hedonism, or high time preference and lack of concern for the social whole. Each of these relate to the literature on selfishness and altruism. Immaterial taste, humility, and non-hedonism are in-line with altruistic behavior. In fact, altruism could conceivably be the general factor underlying materialism, narcissism, and hedonism. It is easy to see that as
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