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> "Nice guys finish last." Perhaps it is ingrained in our Western culture that we expect leaders to be aggressive and aggrandizing. one could argue that it’s m
by kmlx 5y ago
> "Nice guys finish last." Perhaps it is ingrained in our Western culture that we expect leaders to be aggressive and aggrandizing.
one could argue that it’s mostly a feature of the US.
- reaperducer 5y agoone could argue that it’s mostly a feature of the US. Only if one was unfamiliar with pretty much every British prime minister, and almost every king or emperor on the planet in the last 3,000 years.
- kmlx 5y agoi disagree. there is nothing in common between the modernist “nice guys finish last” and the principles of the kings, emperors and PMs. the latter were driven by divine right, by imbalances in knowledge, by having massive armies, by thinking their were right. the former is a mainly US anti-elitism, anti-education mantra that’s been a staple in that country for a few generations.