Pathological pride and pathological insecurity lead to roughly the same thing: nothing at all.
It makes people grossly ineffective.
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Being right but not heard a la Cassandra tends to put people in the position of both at once.
It plants the seed of doubt at the same time as it makes you want to scream "I told you fuckers, I told you!"
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This is why it's immeasurably important to learn how to actually harness social energy, how to read people, how to get social outcomes you want.
That is, assuming you want to get anything done in society.
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It's folly to expect people, who generally lack specialized knowledge, don't parse information well and just can't actually think, to respond to truth.
You need a mechanism by which to grab their attention and sustain it, and to motivate them besides. Otherwise it's no use.
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However, the combination of vision and charisma is pretty gawddamned rare. Destitute sages and successful demagogues aplenty on this planet.
Very few visionaries.
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The worst thing about this is that people are being deliberately schooled to have their spirits broken, deliberately fed through a meat grinder.
The entire system is leveraged to produce the outcome of most people being pretty ineffective at just about anything they do.
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