Autism or selflessness

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I know that this is biased.
But when I interpret NT and society from a selfish perspective, many things suddenly become clear.
Assume that NT only likes benefits, so they are willing to conflict for benefits.
They find that cooperation will have an advantage in conflicts, so they select selfish and strong people in the crowd to be friends.
They will not be friends with everyone, because in this way they cannot take the benefits of others for free.
After getting the benefits, in order to maintain this pattern, they will weave narratives and develop force.
In my personal experience, the narrative of NT is that people who do not engage in interpersonal relationships are wrong, and their force is insults and noise. In colonialism, the narrative of NT is that those who are uncivilized are wrong. In the Chinese historical dynasties, the narrative of NT is that those who disobey are wrong.In the US (as I see it), the NT narrative is that people who are against the elite are wrong
NT does not care about "selfishness" or "lying" unless it affects their interpersonal relationships.

Infuse with personal ideology

Well good point. The idea is maybe it isn't __us__ who are wrong, it's the NTs.

At a larger scale, this is a matter of social construction. When self-serving manifests itself under the name of "ration", it appears as if there's nothing wrong about it. And if you are aware that it's just a rationalization mask, not true ration, you should be able to see through it.

Other instances of social construction.
- Sociolinguistics: people of higher class speak in a different way than people of lower class. At its extreme they speak in totally different languages, which is known as diglossia (di- "two", glossia "language"). You are Chinese so I expect you to know Wenyan/Baihua. For Greek, Katharevousa and Demotic. For Indian languages, Sanskrit and Prakrit.
- Math as a tool of rationalization: This is common in music theory, and rationalizes the belief that "Western music uses math so it must be superior to other music cultures." In fact, "math" used in music theory is more like numerology than what mathematicians really work on.

Of course, we are facing the same kind of structural violence. In this case, the mask of ration is "you are different from us, so you must have a disease".

As for ideology, I'm not particularly interested in politics actually

EDIT:

Social constructionism isn't the end of the story. Biological determinism, based on the empirical evidence of cultural universality, is on the rise, and is shifting the research paradigm towards cognitive science. At this point, I would like to cross-ref Psychopathy, people who are inherently selfish, inherently deceitful, and inherently power-seeking. Maybe, I mean maybe, it's that a small proportion of people are born to exploit, and a small proportion of people are born to explore, and a large proportion of people are born to bond. This is a bit radical and honestly I'm not sure if it's true.

To @belijojo. You should know about Joseph MacCarthy from your history class. This means you can't possibly convince them. If you want, you can start with topics that are not so far-left, like labor rights and economic crisis.

To other readers: communism ≠ propaganda. It's a real ideology that some people sincerely adhere to. I'm not interested in politics so no commont on this.

belijojo

Thank you for your post.
I understand the dichotomy you are feeling and proposing.
I was caught in the web of thinking in the rather black and white approach of "we are aware of and take into account our fellow human's needs" whilst the "normal" people do not seem too preoccupied with this.
And have luckily been able to surmount this in my humble opinion too rigid framework of classification.
We all have issues and difficulties, some of us are more emotionally motivated and need entire systems in place to help them try and aim for the higher value's in life.(reasoned altruism, compassion, ...)
Whilst other have an innate need/quality that makes them more aware of our surroundings and are thus also more quick to notice divergence from the social standards we are all aiming for.

feel free to comment and/or disagree.
kind regards,
Kada