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To: Bilow who wrote (34635)7/18/2002 10:55:26 PM
From: Tony McFadden  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The universal human response to defeat is submission

...collectively a people may respond with submission, but individually, many people respond with defiance.

When the critical mass of defiant people outweigh the submissive, there are uprisings. The key to strong leadership is to maintain this level of defiance in your followers regardless of the size of the defeat.

In regimes -- like Saddam's -- the dictatorship/despotism form of "leadership" is not one that inspires defiance in the face of strong opposition. It is a leadership born of fear and cannot withstand massive losses.

Churchill, by truly leading, (lying, in some cases, about the reality of the situation) inspired collective defiance in the face of what other groups may have considered untenable odds.

Tony
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