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That’s not accurate. “Softskills”, a wholly an individual pursuit, is a modern phenomenon. Individualism on this level is not even contextually concievable in

That’s not accurate. “Softskills”, a wholly an individual pursuit, is a modern phenomenon. Individualism on this level is not even contextually concievable in historical societies which sufficed a lot of the purposes served by “softskills” with structure and culture. By maintaining a congruence of experience and balance of relations in a society as a whole, “softskills” as you are considering them, are relatively irrelevant. Of course, you will have your exceptions, but until electronic media/radio, great leaders did not even have the opportunity to deliver ther soft skills far. The whole individualist notion of “softskills” speaks to the atmosphere that rationalizes hikkikomori.

watwut 8y ago
You don't need electronics for softskills to matter. You need people to achieve things through other people. That always mattered great deal. There are whole books of past leaders speeches. Generals trained the speeches. In ancient Rome, rhetorics was the most important things a citizen boy had to learn.
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  Bob Cratchit didn't need rhetoric, or soft skills, just the ability to keep Scrooge's records in poor working conditions, and say yes sir. Same for a bookkeeper, rail engineer or mill worker. Nor in the army or navy, unless commissioned (which was bought before about 1860, so you could be as dysfunctional as you like if you could afford it). Some of the most well known Victorians and Edwardians were pretty eccentric. To a degree that we'd probably find them dysfunctional today. Now we seem to expect a little of everything in everyone.
  - watwut 8y ago
    Bob Cratchit was made up, underpaid and abused. How is that argument for anything good? Bookkeeper needed ability to communicate with employer in about the same measure then accounting needs now. Ditto rail engineer. Lack of ability to fit in in army means a lot of bullying that you will have to endure. Nevertheless, it is not like you needed rhetorics to be marine now. We have well known eccentric people now. Neither implies all that much about average person life. Nor that the average person would get away with the same. House hold servant would not be tolerated eccentricity.

watwut 8y ago

You don't need electronics for softskills to matter. You need people to achieve things through other people. That always mattered great deal. There are whole books of past leaders speeches. Generals trained the speeches. In ancient Rome, rhetorics was the most important things a citizen boy had to learn.

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Bob Cratchit didn't need rhetoric, or soft skills, just the ability to keep Scrooge's records in poor working conditions, and say yes sir. Same for a bookkeeper, rail engineer or mill worker. Nor in the army or navy, unless commissioned (which was bought before about 1860, so you could be as dysfunctional as you like if you could afford it). Some of the most well known Victorians and Edwardians were pretty eccentric. To a degree that we'd probably find them dysfunctional today. Now we seem to expect a little of everything in everyone.
- watwut 8y ago
  Bob Cratchit was made up, underpaid and abused. How is that argument for anything good? Bookkeeper needed ability to communicate with employer in about the same measure then accounting needs now. Ditto rail engineer. Lack of ability to fit in in army means a lot of bullying that you will have to endure. Nevertheless, it is not like you needed rhetorics to be marine now. We have well known eccentric people now. Neither implies all that much about average person life. Nor that the average person would get away with the same. House hold servant would not be tolerated eccentricity.