> cause 1988 I don't think its necessarily the 1988 crowd specifically. I think its just their way of blackmailing each other and determining who is actually a psychopath among them and thus who is 'worthy' of promotion. These people don't actually believe in anything spiritual. It's pure machiavellian politikal device. Some of the clever ones might engage with it on a spiritual level, like pascals wager, on the *purely rational* basis that it *may* be true, and thus a path to power. But that is merely them hedging bets. They view power purely as a mechanistic force, including all social phenomenon.