>
> the TMO concepts of enlightened leadership, on the
> one hand, and leadership that reflects the
> consciousness of the people, on the other hand,
> don't seem to mesh very well. In other words,
> they can't both be true.
I feel a little foolish to admit I'd never noticed this
conflict before. It's funny! Maybe, in the TMO worldview,
enlightened people are liberated from ties to
collective consciousness, just as they're liberated
in the sense of no longer having their consciousness
bound in ignorance of its true nature.
Still, that doesn't help with governance, because one
cannot simply order people to do what they're not
really committed to doing. (Stalin had ways to make
it work, and Maharishi seems to have some success,
but they're special cases.) So an enlightened leader
might say, "Let's forgive the terrorists," but the people
would say, "Screw that, I want blood." And the enlightened
leader would have a problem.
I had a conversation about this topic of orders versus
persuasion with an Army major in my acquaintance.
I said, "It seems to me that in the Army, of all places,
you could just say, 'Do this,' and it would get done."
He said, "Well, you could, but officers who work that
way don't advance very far." He said subordinates will
only do the minimum required to comply with the order,
which isn't enough for real success in any endeavor
short of maybe digging a latrine.
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