This-essay is a8412251.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %HUMILITY-2 841225 Humility does not thrive in a society that rarely affirms and puts trust in humble people. If people who lack humility are regularly entrusted with power and affirmed by a society, the children in the society learn that humility is not desired or respected. The children will learn their lesson all the more firmly if the society is consistent and fails to affirm and put trust in people who are genuinely competent and humble. Competitive societies tend to affirm and put trust in competitive people who have confidence in their ability and know how to sell their competence to those who have need of their services. Genuinely humble people are not likely to be affirmed and trusted by the powerful members of a competitive society, at least not as often as assertive people who present themselves as more competent than they really are, because they have learned how to compete through assertive maneuvers by watching the leaders of their society. The pattern of leadership feed- back and reward---leads to more and more arrogant leadership that moves in the direction of more intense competition and coercion; until violent leaders become the ones who dominate the society, and genuinely humble people are put down for their timidity in spite of their competencies. A thoroughly individualistic and competitive society compounds its problems by educating its children in ways which reward individual competitiveness which undermines cooperative ventures. Children are taught that what they can do by themselves counts for more than what they can do cooperatively. They are also taught that humility does not count for much, but assertiveness, self confidence, and self-salesmanship are rewarded. As a result such societies have problems which they can not solve for lack of cooperation among overly individualistic and competitive citizens seeking to win individualistic rewards. Assertive people who pretend to be humble give humility a bad reputation in competitive societies. Some people strive to win humility contests---to gain recognition for their efforts. It is difficult for successful competitors in a compulsively competitive society to avoid getting trapped in such efforts. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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