You don't see too many weak chinned, paunchy, balding male models in job recruitment advertising, and when you do they're not usually featured in the "this could be you" sense. g.
"We are, after all, the product of our social evolution. The only way we can change is if enough of us want to really look at the reasons we do things- which will mean we will have to be able to look at words like bravery, and cowardice, and "good" and "evil", without resorting to the shorthand of "I know it when I see it"- which gets you no further than in to the personal relativistic schema of whatever person thinks they "know what they see"."
I think we are victims of our evolution. That was displayed most vividly after 9/11 when America felt physically threatened. In those situations we look for an angry, combative, decisive leader daring the enemy; "bring em on."
In tribal situations that person usually had to prove he merited the "war leader" position, pre-testing himself in front of the tribe and proving that he deserved the war leadership.
All this country had was a master politician with a weak mind and an underlying sense of great fear, but he was a good enough politician to fool the country into a second term. Too bad.
If we grow enough as a civilization we might be able to escape the shackles of evolutionary knee jerk reactions and learn how to more intelligently think our way forward. Some of us work at doing this in our personal lives every day, but then the others get a vote too. Ed |
