It is evident that democracy will only realize its full potential in an epoch when we - as "dignitarians" - unite to overcome rankism, the archetype of all "isms" - anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, imperialism, and colonialism, etc. That is, when we have had enough - or as is said in A.A. - when we are "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
To "unite to overcome rankism" we will need to comprehend psychopathy. That is, we will need to face the reality of psychopaths in the political and economic realms.
A reviewer of the book Political Ponerology writes:
"They learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood and they develop an awareness of the existence other individuals similar to them.
"The author attempts to move the understanding of Evil forward into a scientific study."
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The great Martin Luther King Jr. articulated a deep solution to the "somebody/nobody" quandary in this way:
At the core of many humans is a desire to be first and superior, a desire he called "The Drum Major Instinct" - a desire to be out front - a desire to lead the parade." Without rebuking us for our ambition, King asserted that we can transform this instinct into a form that serves the healing and empowerment of all beings.
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