I can guarantee you that every single leader that has ever lived was manufactured much the same way. After a point, you can’t even correct the crowd. Trying to correct them is meaningless; they will just smile and tell you that you are being humble.
The only way to go on is to continue lying
Exactly, Ive noticed this with leader too. You said it well when you described it as manufactured leaders. Except I would say its more like there are two pathways of a leader based on the personality of the person.
For you the two pathways are:
1. Create goal. Continue with honest self reflection and inspection of others. lose energy from being on a pedestal and not seeing followers growing for themselves; Never being on equal terms. Then leaving the community because of the lack of equality. Or
2 Continue the lie and propaganda create by your followers. Act like the god that the make you out to be. But always knowing that this is not who you are based on self introspection abilities.
For others (that I've observed) the pathway is:
1 create goal. continue that goal and gain attention for having such strong resolve. Gain more strength and energy with ego from all the blind support of follower that help you but still stay as an individual and keeping to you original ideal. Or
2 Start believing the propaganda created by your followers and become the god that you were always entitled to be. Now becoming the manufactured leader made up of the two parts of the original creation of the leader and the ideas that your followers have created.
I could have described that better but basic trying to describe two different personality types in a leader position. For some being a leader is positive, for others it is negative. Even though it sounds like you are a good leader, that is not your natural place were you thrive. Because of your drive to create equality and individuality in others (and other reasons), you do not gain energy from being put on a pedestal above everyone else. You would do well being in second command of a mature leader who does gain energy from that position. (of course the leader having similar ideas of equality and individuality to you)
Really great post. love your blogs.
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It's not about personality. Would you like me to make an argument that some people are born to be slaves and some others free? No. That would be ubsurd.
I was thriving. I did this for most of my life. I stopped because I realised what was happening. I am revealing things to you that nobody will ever do in their right mind because it would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Your arguments are arguments from ignorance.
No, but I'm saying it seems necessary to have some sort of leader/alpha to move a groups energy. So its best to have someone lead that is enjoying it/gaining energy from it.
I do agree with you that I was polarizing people/personality types too much though. A better way to say it is that a person can lead, at a certain period of there life, until they are not passionate about what they are leading anymore. Then they can lead something else. I do think there is a way to lead and still not kill the golden goose, it seems necessary; Maybe like you were doing when you led with constant introspection of ones self. Maybe some sort of decentralized leadership.
I wasn't arguing just making an observation. What I was trying to express is that it does seem like one personality type craves the leadership more than the other. The Irony about that is that often the one that does not want to lead is better suited for it. I would say more lack of experience that ignorance, even though they are similar.
Leading is a concept from the primitive past. Being lead by someone should be something to be examined pathologically. Even if there is a way to lead and not kill the golden goose, you are still doing something wrong. For example. you can't possibly represent a group of people and be honest with all of them. If you have ever been a leader you will know what I mean by this.
There are no personality types. That's just psych-crap. All humans are dynamic characters. The problems is to be born in a society with leaders and consider leadership as something "natural". Well it was much like believing in Gods and fairies but it is not anymore.
It is a relic of the past that is still propegated in a positive way.
Yeah It's definitely impossible to fully represent everyone in a group that becomes to big. Also because of the propaganda that the group creates about there leader, it usually changes the leader to be more self centered ironically.
Well Since these ideas of leaders and gods have existed as far back in time as we know of, it is very hard to prove or disprove that it is ineffective anymore. The powers at be do not really even give a chance for that type of experiment on a global scale. I do see you point though. You said that it's a concept from the primitive past, when do you think it changed as ineffective?