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> As does (starting tomorrow) the new leader of the free world. I'm not a fan of Trump's, but it takes an exotic form of humility to sell gaudy things, have an
by humanrebar 10y ago
> As does (starting tomorrow) the new leader of the free world.
I'm not a fan of Trump's, but it takes an exotic form of humility to sell gaudy things, have an off-the-wall hairstyle, and be a WWE performer. He's so over the top that there has to be a level of ironic self-awareness in there somewhere.
- burkaman 10y agoWhy does there have to be? He's been a public figure for like 40 years, wouldn't someone have seen some evidence of self-awareness by now?
- humanrebar 10y agoI'm saying I don't see how someone gets "slapped around" by Steve Austin without being at least a little meta and a little humble in some weird way.
- flukus 10y agoThe election was the evidence, he's very self aware. You just don't like the image he is purposefully projecting.
- burkaman 10y agoWhat do you mean? Hasn't one of the stories of the election been people constantly saying "he doesn't mean it, it's an act, it's just for votes", and being proven wrong every time? Everyone around him, his kids, his biographers, his employees, all say this is who he really is. So he's obviously aware of the image he's projecting, but I don't think he's self-aware in the way that comment implied, which was that he's just playing a character, and he's certainly never shown any evidence of humility.
- GavinMcG 10y agoI don't think that's humility at all. It might take not caring about what other people think of you, but that's a totally separate dimension than humility.
- humanrebar 10y agoYeah, I'm open to a better vocabulary word for this, but the point is that it might overlap with "humility in leadership" somehow. Or not. Words are hard.