First let me state the premise of my intended writing. While there are many writings about the nature of abuse and the nature of psychopaths in the world ("Psychopaths are found in every segment of society” - Robert Hare, “Without Conscience –The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”), I have not encountered any public discussions about why, in so many countries (and in my premise, at the helm of so many global corporations) we continually find our lives negatively (drastically and often fatally) impacted by leaders whose actions yell loudly that our welfare truly is not their concern. The fact that people in positions of leadership can wage war over and over again by replaying age old tactics born of propaganda, hatred, religion and other forms of public manipulation is in some part due to the fact that we are not privy to the dynamics that allow them to work their way into power. Once they are in power, regardless of the inhumanity of their crimes, they often live out their lives with the trappings of respect shared by their peers who engage in similar activities in their own arenas.
The nature of most people is to feel powerless in the face of world events. Or is it that we are so well trained from childhood to believe that someone “up there” will take care of us that we cannot conceive of taking action to ensure the quality of our leaders?
Two additional traits that maintain the status quo:
1) The media reliance upon and public desire for simple solutions to complex problems.
2) The use of selective information (that deprives listeners of a balanced insight into a problem or circumstance) to promote and sell a point of view.
I believe that encouraging a public dialogue about the nature of today’s leaders, how they came to power, and how they betray the public trust that we so badly want to give them could eventually lead to solutions for better ways to encourage people of conscience to actually succeed in the highest levels of leadership and, along the way, not to succumb to the temptations that have corrupted so many now in positions of absolute or near absolute power.
The following statements are basically generalizations; one of my hopes is that people who are learned in those various arenas of thought can either bolster, correct
The nature of most people is to feel powerless in the face of world events. Or is it that we are so well trained from childhood to believe that someone “up there” will take care of us that we cannot conceive of taking action to ensure the quality of our leaders?
Two additional traits that maintain the status quo:
1) The media reliance upon and public desire for simple solutions to complex problems.
2) The use of selective information (that deprives listeners of a balanced insight into a problem or circumstance) to promote and sell a point of view.
I believe that encouraging a public dialogue about the nature of today’s leaders, how they came to power, and how they betray the public trust that we so badly want to give them could eventually lead to solutions for better ways to encourage people of conscience to actually succeed in the highest levels of leadership and, along the way, not to succumb to the temptations that have corrupted so many now in positions of absolute or near absolute power.
The following statements are basically generalizations; one of my hopes is that people who are learned in those various arenas of thought can either bolster, correct
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