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%CRITICAL MASS ALIENATIVE TENDENCIES LEADERSHIP GOD 041228
%DICTATOR EMPEROR EMPIRE BUILDER POWER CONCENTRATED 041228
 %EXCESSIVE WEALTH RICHES GOODS INTENTIONS ARROGANT 041228
%INITIATOR PROPOSAL FIRM RESOLUTE TENACIOUS CONFIDE 041228
   %OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE LISTENER VULNERABLE POORER 041228
  %WEAK SICK NAKED ILLNESS HOMELESS DISEASE FAILURE 041228

     Most famous leaders  show  many,   if not all, of the
following  traits  which are usually thought of as "great"
leadership traits.

     1.  Taking initiatives, making proposals.
     2.  Being firm, resolute, tenacious.
     3.  Showing self-confidence, being self-assured.
     4.  Being quick in sizing up situations, deciding.
     5.  Being bright, intelligent, well-informed.
     6.  Playing dominant roles in generation motivation.
     7.  Being willing to take major risks to get-ahead.
     8.  Showing courage when others hang back.
     9.  Having a good sense of the "big-picture".
    10.  Eliciting trust and confidence in others.

     People who fail to show most of the above  leadership
traits  are generally not respected,  honored or  followed
with any sense of trust and confidence.   Thus,  would-be-
leaders  seek  to avoid behaviors which suggest  that they
lack any of the above leadership traits.

     The tragedy is that being determined to avoid showing
a lack in any of the above "great" leadership traits makes
for leaders who are:

 1.  Domineering, coercive and often violent.
 2.  Unable and/or unwilling to admit/learn from mistakes.
 3.  Unable to take time to consider complementary ideals.
 4.  Unable to get others into decision making processes.
 5.  Prone to arrogance, self-righteousness, false pride.
 6.  Unable to let complementary people show leadership.
 7.  Willing to rush ahead led by ignorance/prejudice.
 8.  Unwilling to admit that a desired goal is impossible.
 9.  Unable to affirm complementary ideals, values, goals.
10.  Unwilling to trust/respect complementary people.

     The "margin-of-error" in potential-leaders who try to
demonstrate  "great-leadership-traits" is small;  and many
would-be-leaders  err on the side of becoming:   arrogant,
self-righteous,     domineering,    coercive,     violent,
dictatorial,  alienated,  destructive,   fool-hearty,  and
unapologetic  demonstrators  of hubris.    Such  would-be-
leaders to not want  to be  seen as:  soft,  gentle, slow,
doubtful, unsure, uncertain, timid, indecisive, faltering,
confused, contested, irresolute, flip-floppers, etc.

     When  the  members  of  a  community  are  unable  to
recognize  would-be-dictators and would-be-emperors;  they
are  likely  to get what they should fear more than  their
ostensible  enemy  leaders.    We should always  fear  our
worst-relationships --- which relationships include us and
our most ALIENATIVE-TENDENCIES.

     People  who trust "The Domination System"   and  "The
Myth  of Redemptive Violence"  are prone to trust  without
question the above ten dominant traits of "Great Leaders",
and are likely to be dominated by such "Great Leaders".

     In  contrast,  True-Lovers seek out others who DO NOT
TRUST  either  "The Domination System"  or  "The  Myth  of
Redemptive Violence";  and so seek to be able together  to
let  go  of  all  such  confidence in  trying  to  achieve
security through personal or in-group "INVULNERABILITY".

     True-Lovers  DO  NOT  seek to  form  wealthy/powerful
coalitions of any kind.

     True-Lovers  seek to share what they have,  know  and
trust through demonstrations of distributive-justice;  and
thereby  expose the WEAKNESSES of "The Domination  System"
and "The Myth of Redemptive Violence"; e.g.:

     1.  Alienation, estrangement, ignorance, prejudices.
     2.  Mis-understandings, confusion, tragic-ideals.
     3.  Impossible-goals and impossible-visions.
     4.  Visions of personal wealth/superiority.
     5.  Visions of eternal invulnerability/powers.
     6.  Not having to admit mistakes/blunders.
     7.  Not having to seek forgiveness/reconciliation.
     8.  Not being vulnerable to complementary ideals.
     9.  Not being vulnerable to complementary people.
    10.  Not ever having to show any form of reverence.

     Such   demonstrations  of  the  WEAKNESSES  of   "The
Domination System"  and "The Myth of Redemptive  Violence"
terrify those who trust in them as offering the sure means
and technologies for achieving ETERNAL INVULNERABILITY; at
everybody else's cost and disintegrations of personal  and
communal integrations and integrities.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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