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As I've aged, I've seen more and more a common trend occurring across many areas, where hubris in selection and promotion procedures, accompanied by denial of f

As I've aged, I've seen more and more a common trend occurring across many areas, where hubris in selection and promotion procedures, accompanied by denial of fundamental flaws in those procedures, leads to nothing but rampant corruption. A system based on narcissistic delusion eventually has no room for anything but delusion. It's disgusting to me that the people running this program can assert, with no irony, that exposing recruits to extreme conditions necessarily precludes monitoring those recruits for life-threatening conditions. It says less about the fortitude of the recruits than the negligence or incompetence of those running the recruitment program.

ncr100 4y ago
Yes. USA values short term reward. It is an accessible culture, as a pro, and I still wish we could value the long term view, too. I have a story, maybe not entirely related: Three years ago I hugged and consoled a seriously drunk and upset, and traumatized older (60?) ex-SEAL, wearing a Hawaiian shirt crying outside my home in the downtown of a large city. He was in crisis and was asking for an ambulance. Crying about how his friends were butchered in front of him during action, some long time ago. He is a really huge person .. tall and strong, and emotionally unstable. And I waited until an ambulance came to take a look at him. I looked him up later, and he's a kind of troublemaker, known to the police for making a boisterous kind of upset. So, it's frustrating to me. I don't feel I helped my fellow citizen well enough. I expect the guy will be in crisis again. And I end up disappointed in myself, my skills, and realize I need to research and train up on providing crisis resources.