Hypocritical black arts

Hypocrisy annoys me more than it should.

However, only a subset of hypocrisy annoys me and that is hypocrisy of those in positions of authority and responsibility. You can always tell the hypocritical ones; they turn theses positions into ones of power and wealth.

Ask yourself this; which of the following does you current political leader use to describe his or her function?

“We/I lead/rule/govern this country/state”

You have to be very suspicious when a democratically elected representative of a small slab of suburban Sydney, who was at some point elected by his party to be their leader, says “I rule this country”. I once heard Johnny Howard say that on radio.

Academics, absent a wealth objective, act pretty much like politicians. Power, of a sort, is their motivating force and it expresses itself as a publicity-driven ego.

The hypocrisy of the politicians and academics is obvious when they pretend to be different to what they really are. However they aren’t very good at it.

Business leaders are far more subtle in the art of hiding their true colours. This is because the stakes are higher (personal wealth) and thus this arena attracts a far higher quality of candidate and is much more competitive.

Today most business leaders never get the language wrong. They are trained in the art of appearing to be what they are not. Having worked for a few, it does take a while to see through the facade. But it can be done. However the drive to achieve excessive wealth is all you need to watch for; this and power are the telltale signs.

So back to me. Why do I dislike this type of hypocrisy so much. It doesn’t really make sense actually. I am not now and have rarely been a victim of it. However I have seen many people who have been. That is partially it. No, my main problem is that I have the talents to be very successful and yet my journey has been made that much harder by my refusal to practice the hypocritical black arts, for reasons I don’t even understand. I just can’t stomach them.

Right that was a bloody long circle back to where I came from. This is a case of pondering the problem, Eastern-style, rather than looking for Western-style solution. Or as we Australia, it’s just the vibe of the thing.

Although this effort has made me realise that hypocrisy itself is just a marker for something else, namely greed and insecurities. Collectively, my natural disliking of these are the root cause of my apparent cynicism. I don’t suffer from either of these. Blog over.