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fpbAs if the collapse of my bookcases were not enough to make me feel depressed, I have found, in an answer thread on a community on my friends page, the following statement:
What IS a great leader? Was Churchill a great leader? He was astoundingly cruel, even to his own men. He was drunk most of the time. Other people were was paying the horrible price for his incompetence.
I will not say who wrote it, because the creature deserves no publicity. What does one do with such a mind? It is not just the depth of error and ignorance s/he revels in. It is not just that s/he has read one piece of inimical propaganda and based his /her ignorant and stupid assessment on that. It is that he or she exists in a world where it is natural to judge and condemn others on wholly inadequate bases, in which one does not seek out any reason to doubt one's views, and in which one's views are always negative, because one the self-righteousness one cultivates is really a way to feel superior to others by condemning them without appeal. It is a world in which history serves merely as ego-boost, in which the past is one great depth of error until the luminous insight and presence of **oneself** royally appears among the darkness, shining its own critical light into its darkest corners to vaingloriously show how inferior they are to **one's** mighty, judging, central Self. A person like that is a potential public danger and a certain pest. And, unfortunately, at large in LJ.
What IS a great leader? Was Churchill a great leader? He was astoundingly cruel, even to his own men. He was drunk most of the time. Other people were was paying the horrible price for his incompetence.
I will not say who wrote it, because the creature deserves no publicity. What does one do with such a mind? It is not just the depth of error and ignorance s/he revels in. It is not just that s/he has read one piece of inimical propaganda and based his /her ignorant and stupid assessment on that. It is that he or she exists in a world where it is natural to judge and condemn others on wholly inadequate bases, in which one does not seek out any reason to doubt one's views, and in which one's views are always negative, because one the self-righteousness one cultivates is really a way to feel superior to others by condemning them without appeal. It is a world in which history serves merely as ego-boost, in which the past is one great depth of error until the luminous insight and presence of **oneself** royally appears among the darkness, shining its own critical light into its darkest corners to vaingloriously show how inferior they are to **one's** mighty, judging, central Self. A person like that is a potential public danger and a certain pest. And, unfortunately, at large in LJ.
