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Leadership Principles of the Warrior - Series Twelve Leadership Ascendency (Part 4)
lative and specious con-
juring on human nature,
occult has become the
“cult of the personality”.
In a diverse range of psy-
chological perspectives,
some with sociological
and evolutionary attempts
at explanation, very little
has been resolved. People
have not changed much in
terms of basic predatory
characteristics. Decep-
tion is such a skill set that
most of us are very good
at fooling ourselves, espe-
cially when it comes to a
belief system we think is
the right one. We will go
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very far and to every ex-
tent to ensure our subjec-
tive validation of being
validated.
From unevolved fixation
on simplistic solvability
factors, we transgress to
the “P”, or the pitiful, in
the pitying of one’s indi-
vidual plight. For that, the
larger culture has accepted
the collusions of the “psy-
cho-medico-pharmaceu-
tical industrial complex”.
Being unevolved in the
transformation to a higher
life form, we wallow in
the mire of self-deceit and
project the neediness of
pity from others. In the
illusion and subsequent
mythology for a “quick
fix”, with easy excuses,
academia comes to the
rescue.
After all, institutions
of higher learning and
knowledge have all the
answers, right? You can
always ask an “expert”
somewhere for the “right”
answers you want to here.
“psycho-theorists” rush
in to “explain” the depths
of the complexity, and
quickly label the malady.
Once a “diagnosis” is
named, and you caught it
as something like a cold,
there is going to be a pill
for it. With good market-
ing, gullible acceptance,
and pricey consumption,
society has a cure for ev-
erything.
Pity invites ignorance
of self and a failure to
become a better person.
Leaders must learn to
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