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kovod? coy-ved!
Der Wille zur Macht. Ask Friedrich for me details.
Old news - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Idk about terrifying, but def. palpable.
There is a saying, can't remember the exact "loshon" - the young used to want their own pleasure, and the old used to want kovod. Now, the young want kovod anf the elder wish to pleasure themselves...
It always amuses me that Freud and other European theorists developed many explanations of human behavior but none of them seem to acknowledge the role of kavod (honor). In a nutshell, western society has no honor and can't understand it. But honor, shame, blame are basic movitators in Jewish, Islamic and oriental societies.
Perhaps the great underlying motivator is not kavod, but envy.
According to clinical psychologist Robert Godwin (www.onecosmos.blogspot.com) the key source is "Envy" by Helmut Schoeck.
Schoeck said: "The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself."
That's the whole Democratic Party outlook on life, isn't it?
As Robert Godwin explains:
"In his classic work, Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour, Helmut Schoeck notes that our most economically misguided ideas stem from the futile attempt to eliminate envy. In order to placate the envious individual, government must intervene with policies that do achieve the desired end of of creating more equality, but at the cost of inefficiency, lack of economic growth, and ultimately far less wealth for everyone. Only by tolerating envy is economic development possible: "the more both private individuals and the custodians of political power in a given society are able to act as though there were no such thing as envy, the greater will be the rate of economic growth and the number of innovations in general." A society is best able to achieve its creative potential if it functions "as if the envious person could be ignored." Likewise, well-meaning leftists who seek the completely "just society" are doomed to failure because they are based on the idea that it is possible to eliminate envy, when human beings inevitably find something new to envy."
Very good Gandalin; Envy from "well-meaning leftists" is the message of the welfare state, the US Democratic Party, European Union, the union movement.... The list is long.
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