Meet the chief of staff General Milley, a warrior and a scholar
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All Authoritarian systems fundamentally operate like this. It's a key flaw within them.
This is why meritocracy is declared to be fascist by the Left.
"To the workers of the world."
Fundamentally, the Sociopaths rise to the top given the toxic regime of the organization itself, and then they intentionally promote people who can never threaten them, and will be dependent upon them. This is also why vice is incentivized. Vices are easy to make people dependent upon you, because it's easy to make yourself the only dispenser of that vice, and the enforcement against that vice is defined solely through you.
The sociopath surrounds himself with loyalists who are dependent on him by either vice, incompetence, or preferably both. It's not an accident. He has to.
I'm not confident this is an effect that manifests more squarely on either side of the right/left spectrum, and I've witnessed it within highly meritocratic, large companies. I think it maps more onto organizational size than ideology. But maybe you're right. My personal experience is hardly a statistical sample.
I actually agree with you. There's absolutely an ideological aspect to it, but sheer size requires a high level of authoritarianism due to the structures inability to adapt quickly to changing threats. Thus, creating the environment for collapse.
Order begets chaos. Chaos begets order.