The psychopathic leaders of America
“Our tolerance for these people, allowing them to zoom up the ladder, services us poorly. While some of these people are successful risk-takers, as a group they’re terrible leaders, making poor decisions and trashing our all-important social cohesion. Our tolerance of them re-enforces their belief that we are sheep.”
Summary: Slowly we begin to hear the warnings about our leaders. America is not a meritocracy, and our system promotes people with the traits of psychopaths. A cold hard insight that can help us choose better leaders for our future. {1st of 2 posts today.}
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
— Speech by union leader Nicholas Klein (1918).
. This is a good step for America: “Why It Pays to Be a Jerk” by Jerry Useem, The Atlantic, June 2015 — “New research confirms what they say about nice guys.” Useem shows us harsh facts about America through a soft filter, as the author sells this to us as a good thing.
But it’s a start at progress to see the reality behind the…
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