Pages of Alexander RSSSun, 12 Dec 2021 06:58:02 GMTThe donkey told the tiger, “The grass is blue.”The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: "Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”The lion replied: “If you believe it is true, the grass is blue.”The donkey rushed forward and continued: "The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him.”The king then declared: "The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence.”The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating "The grass is blue, the grass is blue…”The tiger asked the lion, “Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”The lion replied, "You’ve known and seen the grass is green.”The tiger asked, "So why do you punish me?”The lion replied, “That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ***, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!”The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn’t care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions.Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on…SOURCE: From the Ice Age Farmer on TelegramCredit to unknown author who wrote this.

]]>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:58:02 GMTThe "Right Man"The violent male type,A man who always has to be right.http://amasci.com/weird/rightman.htmlFROM: "Written In Blood: A History Of Forensic Detection" C. Wilson 2003, p645"...This also explained another characteristic of such men: that they could not bear to be contradicted or shown to be in the wrong: this also threatened their image of themselves as a kind of god or superman. If confronted with proof of their own fallibility, they would explode into violence rather than acknowledge that they had made a mistake. For this reason, Van Vogt labelled this type 'the Right Man' or 'the Violent Man.' To his colleagues at work he might appear perfectly normal and balanced; but his family knew him as a kind of paranoid dictator."Only one thing could undermine this structure of self-delusion. If his wife walked out on him, she had demonstrated beyond all doubt that she rejected him; his tower of self-delusion was undermined, and often the result was mental breakdown, or even suicide."Expressed in this way, it seems clear that the Right Man syndrome is a form of mild insanity. Yet it is alarmingly common; most of us know a Right Man, and some have the misfortune to have a Right Man for a husband or father. The syndrome obviously arises from the sheer competitiveness of the world we are born into. Every normal male has an urge to be a 'winner,' yet he finds himself surrounded by people who seem better qualified for success. One common response is boasting to those who look as if they can be taken in - particularly women. Another is what the late Stephen Potter called 'One-upmanship,' the attempt to make the other person feel inferior by a kind of cheating - or example, by pretending to know far more than you actually know. Another is to bully people over whom one happens to have authority. Many 'Right Men' are so successful in all these departments that they achieve a remarkably high level of self-esteem on remarkably slender talents. Once achieved, this self-est... Read more

]]>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:23:27 GMTThe Right Man And The Fear Of Losing FaceTuesday, October 05, 2004SOURCE: https://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2004/10/right-man-and-fear-of-losing-face.htmlThese excerpts are from Colin Wilson's A Criminal History Of Mankind (1984).Here Wilson discusses the interesting psychological concept of the "Right Man", which might in other uses also be called the "Dominant Male" or the "Alpha Male", though we are, of course, speaking here about the negative extremes in behaviour of this human type, not just ordinary dominance or leadership.The "Right Men" can be domestic household tyrants terrorizing their families but they can be found in all fields of life: in business, politics, art, culture. Everyone must have encountered one: a dominating boss, school headmaster or teacher, army officer, father, son, boyfriend, bully.Essential here is that the "Right Man" must always have his way and is afraid of losing face above all ("How dare you talk to me this way?"): anything that might be an indication of his infallibility or erroneous ways, something that he can never admit.And if things don't exactly go his way, he may scare people into submission by breaking into outbursts of rage or downright violence. He may demand absolute faithfulness from his woman but "play around" himself, since as a God-like "Right Man" this is his divine prerogative (he thinks). Colin Wilson also points out that there are "Right Women" too, so this is not exclusively male behaviour."The notion of 'losing face' suggests an interesting alternative line of thought. It is obviously connected, for example, with the cruelty of Himmler and Stalin when their absolute authority was questioned. They were both men with a touchy sense of self-esteem, so that their response to any suspected insult was vindictive rage. Another characteristic of both men was a conviction they they were always right, and a total inability to admit that they might ever be wrong.""Himmlers and Stalins are, fortunately, rare; but the type is ... Read more

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