Tag: behavior

A long way from the gulag and Siberia, one of the escapees from Slavomir Rawicz’s group, impressed by the hospitality of the Mongols and Tibetans, reflects that “these people make me feel very humble. They do a lot to wipe out bitter memories of other people who have lost their respect for humanity”. And really, it is hard to imagine how it is possible that filthy, ragged foreigners, with the ghastly appearance of those who have crossed Siberia and the Gobi Desert on foot, grunting strange phonemes in an unknown language, could, as a rule, have been welcomed by peasants as brothers. The East really is special… And although they have also not escaped corruption and evil, the Orientals have never failed to point out the qualities that distinguish them from other animals.

Psychology should explain why, of all people, logic experts are the most often illogical when they try to analyze real-world situations. One only has to give them a chance to find out: reality is very different from an equation! However, it is a mystery that they can get it so wrong and still continue to enjoy unshakable credit. Some professions are really privileged… A clown does not last long in his career if he is affected by such foolishness.

The life of great men differs from that of ordinary men in the greater clarity in the convergence of factors towards a central thread. In short, one can paint it as a succession of events that culminated in recognized greatness, thus attributing importance and meaning to them. As for ordinary men, it is not that it cannot be done, but the events seem somewhat disconnected. The reason is very simple: because they have not distinguished themselves, it is harder to see what life has transformed them into.

The caste system, if interpreted as a system of psychological types, is all too well founded. Much can be said about the number of types, their characteristics and their predominance, or not, in this or that society. What cannot be doubted is the existence of men with such different motivations and predispositions that, even if they are born and live on the same soil, they do not understand each other very much. This is why it will always be impossible to establish a model of life that everyone should strive for: the ideal for some is failure and death for others.