A Humanitarian…
- …is driven by Foresight.
- …works toward Change.
- …reasons from Fact and Expertise.
A Citizen…
- …is driven by Fear.
- …works toward Comfort and Tradition.
- …reasons from Belief.
A Pretender…
- …is driven by Power.
- …works toward Status Quo.
- …reasons from Entitlement.
From even a very small distance, status quo looks very much like comfort and tradition. In addition, entitlement is traditional, change is scary, and expertise is often patronizing and arrogant.
So, as seen by the citizenry, a pretender is comfortably mistaken for one of us, whereas a humanitarian makes us very uncomfortable.
An individual can adopt a different persona for a specific cause or reason but (I believe) each one of us is more inclined toward a single calling that (I believe) is learned and (I also believe) can be unlearned.
Partially due to one's learning circumstance throughout their life, and partially due to responsibilities and constraints, and partially due to the nature of power, a majority of us a majority of our time are citizens. That said, I (want to) believe that given opportunity the true nature (minus groupthink) of a large majority of individuals is humanitarian.
Because a humanitarian is not driven by power, humanitarian efforts are often thwarted by pretentious rhetoric that sparks groupthink, triggers fear, and ultimately maintains status quo.
Politicians are pretenders…
…and regardless of what the humanitarian in me wants to believe, today's democrats are every bit as much politician as are today's republicans.
