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2015. június 8., hétfő
low quality individuals
Many people with great talent are not successful in their carreers while less gifted ones excel.
Besides that these latter obviously have some other skills to get noticed, it is also clear that chance unevenly favours people.
For simplicity, I define a two-dimensional, Magic Quadrant-like table, positioning humans within the quadrants accross their theoretical "value", here mentioned as QUALITY and their social and/or financial success, that I call RANK.
In his short story "The sevens of Quecwedwuunquatthfrwahr", G. Valiz, the late portuguese author describes a small Welsh town with seven discording families. Lord Flanagan Crimson is a philanthropic and noble leader of the town, the one who tries to establish balance. His rival is the ruthless, stubborn and moron but fabulously wealthy Edward Flynn, whose beautiful daughter, Pauline is attached with a secret romantic bond to Crimson's son, Peter.
Betty and Elizabeth Weech are poor teenage girls who make friends with Pauline. They lack social status but exhibit great talent, and character of quality. Finally, Tom and Jane Pother are a greedy and dumb couple who are counterparts of the more positive characters.
Through literature we can find many corresponding scenes (the Thenardiers in Les Miserables are similar to the Pothers, the Crimsons are like Madelaine-Jean Valjean; or Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice is similar to Betty Weech), they are less black and white than the ones in "The sevens of ...".
Though meant to be sheer fiction, the model of "The sevens of ..." can apply to contemporary society. A few people are Crimsons: they should be role models and natural leaders. But nowadays Flynns largely outnumber them. You see Flynns in society, on TV screens, in politics lying for votes and power, or climbing quickly in corporate hierarchy. In even greater number one can find Weeches everywhere. Creative, talented, original people who can innovate, entertain and foster a healthy climate. Though never able to live a super-wealthy life, they tend to get along with what they earn.
This article is not about the above three.
This article is about the Pothers.
A Pother is a LQI - a low quality individual. Who is not gifted. Who appears to have no talent. Who has no chance to inherit a tiny fortune. Who has no hope to grasp the complexity of the life. Who does not understand, just sees, that while he slowly turns his head, life evaporates and he has no chance to ever suspect what to do, where to go and whom to follow for a happier living. For whom this all theater called life is a threat and without a guide he freaks out.
One in three people is a LQI. Or you are meant to believe so.
(We have then roughly 5 % Crimsons, 20% Flynns and 40% Weeches)
Now - just like in "The sevens of... ", it is the quality of The Guide who determines where the Pothers join and if the future is Order or Turmoil.
Because, interestingly enough, each and every one of us bear a portion of all of them. Shown the correct direction, like Peter and Pauline, or the young Malcolm Pother, they could change and so can we.
Is the guide given? Is what sign we see just a matter of chance?
I don't think so - I prefer believing that as long as free will exists, we can select ours.
Besides that these latter obviously have some other skills to get noticed, it is also clear that chance unevenly favours people.
For simplicity, I define a two-dimensional, Magic Quadrant-like table, positioning humans within the quadrants accross their theoretical "value", here mentioned as QUALITY and their social and/or financial success, that I call RANK.
In his short story "The sevens of Quecwedwuunquatthfrwahr", G. Valiz, the late portuguese author describes a small Welsh town with seven discording families. Lord Flanagan Crimson is a philanthropic and noble leader of the town, the one who tries to establish balance. His rival is the ruthless, stubborn and moron but fabulously wealthy Edward Flynn, whose beautiful daughter, Pauline is attached with a secret romantic bond to Crimson's son, Peter.
Betty and Elizabeth Weech are poor teenage girls who make friends with Pauline. They lack social status but exhibit great talent, and character of quality. Finally, Tom and Jane Pother are a greedy and dumb couple who are counterparts of the more positive characters.
Though meant to be sheer fiction, the model of "The sevens of ..." can apply to contemporary society. A few people are Crimsons: they should be role models and natural leaders. But nowadays Flynns largely outnumber them. You see Flynns in society, on TV screens, in politics lying for votes and power, or climbing quickly in corporate hierarchy. In even greater number one can find Weeches everywhere. Creative, talented, original people who can innovate, entertain and foster a healthy climate. Though never able to live a super-wealthy life, they tend to get along with what they earn.
This article is not about the above three.
This article is about the Pothers.
A Pother is a LQI - a low quality individual. Who is not gifted. Who appears to have no talent. Who has no chance to inherit a tiny fortune. Who has no hope to grasp the complexity of the life. Who does not understand, just sees, that while he slowly turns his head, life evaporates and he has no chance to ever suspect what to do, where to go and whom to follow for a happier living. For whom this all theater called life is a threat and without a guide he freaks out.
One in three people is a LQI. Or you are meant to believe so.
(We have then roughly 5 % Crimsons, 20% Flynns and 40% Weeches)
Now - just like in "The sevens of... ", it is the quality of The Guide who determines where the Pothers join and if the future is Order or Turmoil.
Because, interestingly enough, each and every one of us bear a portion of all of them. Shown the correct direction, like Peter and Pauline, or the young Malcolm Pother, they could change and so can we.
Is the guide given? Is what sign we see just a matter of chance?
I don't think so - I prefer believing that as long as free will exists, we can select ours.
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