A leader must see Beauty of the Spirit first
I am from Hawaii. I went to high school with Obama. I was a senior when he was a junior.
In Hawaii, there are people from every culture and race of the world. There is respect for other people and cultures. It is the best training ground to develop appreciation for other cultures and body types.
I can see Hawaii in Obama every time I look at him. It is a respect for people. A “kick back” attitude.
Yet I know that if Trump were to watch the video below, he would not see a beautiful lady, because he looks at her weight, not the love in her eyes and her spirit.
Yet I know that Obama would see beauty in the woman dancing in this video… Life is more beautiful when one sees the diverse beauty of Spirit in people first…
Edward
probably right.
now the hard question:
can you see beauty of the spirit in Trump?
Trump is a good guy. His nature is to be the alpha male. He does not have deep knowledge of how things work politically. His nature is not to develop that deep knowledge. His nature is to show his strength and power to control. But he has gone too far when he said that Hillary would be put in jail. He is not seeing the spirit of Hillary. Hillary is not trying to be bad. He wants to frame her actions as bad and illegal. I can see his spirit to be good, but he is not expressing his spirit to forgive and understand the rights and desires of many types of people.
So I can see his spirit, but he is not expressing it.
thanks edward
you passed the test better than i did.
Edward perhaps you are right about Trumps nature. I see his nature differently though.
He reminds me of 5th or 6th grade elementary or Jr. High school bully. I was the perpetual target of the bullies in my schools at those ages… probably because I was a) much smaller and less developed that they, and b) I was pretty much outspoken, drawing attention to myself.
In hindsight I began to understand the nature of these bullies. They were from lower middle class homes, father over-bearing physical force disciplinarians, either rarely home, or half lit or nearly fall-down drunk after stopping by the local watering hole after a hard days work with low pay and no chance of improvement, or they were, gone entirely most of the kids lives, with full time working mothers who had youger kids that demanded all of her remaining attention.
I know Trump was raised with a silver spoon but it isn’t clear that he received any more positive attention from his dad than those bullies I knew as a child
An alpha-male personality type exists in other animals as a necessary part of cooperative order for the packs or species survival in a might-makes right for staying alive and healthy world they live in. Humans are also social animals not much more evolved than the great apes in survival instinct when they feel threatened. This is all the more prevalent among males of the animal species… since loss of the “commanding and controlling” male exposes the rest of the tribe to less order, less defense.
But the fights among animals for dominance .. e.g. alpha-male.. is an evolutionarily advantage to the species since it insures the might-makes-right ability for survival is transmitted by the gene pool.
In human civilization however, cooperation among humans for survival has shifted from physical power and skill to insure cooperation (whether they want to cooperate or not) to powers of verbal and mannerisms persuasion backed up with coercive powers — economically related for the most part. This is an advent of human speech / language skill and cognitive development, therefore absent in other animal species.
Trump thus learned at an early age that his powers of persuasion by speech and mannerisms were most effective when he used them in a coercive form to project the threat of physical coercion. He became bully to get his own way by intimidation. It is not an alpha-male condition or derivation. It is not for the purposes of maintaining a cooperative means of survival among the human species.
I don’t dispute that humans will ultimately resort to a might-makes-right means of dominance when it comes to that level of obtaining or maintaining the power of control…. the US is a prime example ever since the Indian wars, and manifest destiny propaganda.
But in a non-military force environment of human cooperative methods, Trump’s methods are not designed for cooperative means of power and control, but for his own benefit to get his own way. A process he learned at a young age and which was successful… perhaps also because his father was wealthy — which has an intimidating effect on Trumps adversaries as well.
So I see Trump not as a good guy… the bullies I knew in grade school and Jr. High were good guys with a rotten luck of the draw. I’ve since been re-acquainted with many of my child-hood bullies…. and they have nearly all adjusted quite well as they developed into genuinely nice guys with successful jobs as managers of other people as well as artists, teachers, etc.
They aren’t racists that I could detect in my re-acquaintances with them, though I will admit I’m not that involved in their lives, though I still see many of them from time to time at social gatherings which include several diverse races and life-styles.
I am therefore of the opinion that Trump’s not a good guy at all or even an alpha-male at all.. he’s accustomed by experience to have learned how to intimidate others to get his own way… for his own self-serving purposes and interests and his physical size helps by projecting physical powers of coercion to his targets.
My overall assessment is that his self-esteem is always being threatened… which generally means his deep seated own self-esteem is low.
But that’s just my assessment… I may be wrong and you may be right.
BTW thank-you for the very inspiring video.