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November 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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There is so much quiet dignity in just being capable and still. Not the loud, performative kind of competence, but a soft, certain way of moving through the world without needing an audience to validate it.

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November 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
jadehawk.bsky.social
the fact that zelenskyy didn't immediately die of a righteous ragestroke right then is a testament to his leadership skills and selfpossession. dude just went "sure, as long as we get something out of it"
March 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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June 27, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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August 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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May 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
jem.ispost.ing
"real danger is not what Empire's violence does to us, but what we become in response. Self-defense that narrows into selfpossession has been captured. Resistance that seeks recognition from State has been absorbed. The surround cant be defended by individuals seeking to secure themselves against it
AGAPE 2.0 / Year in Review — solutionsforpostmodernliving
Over the course of five sessions in 2025, we examined five modalities of imperial violence and the traps that so often accompany resistance. As we open into 2026, it is time to ask the question that has been gathering underneath all along: how do we defend not only ourselves but, more profoundly, ou
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January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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George Blecher wrote about this… in 2002… www.eurozine.com/heroes-leade...

As he said, there is a fine line between heroes and demagogues and I will add that most people are terrible at seeing the difference.
But however much Plutarch admired restraint, he, like Cervantes or any other good writer, sometimes conveys the opposite of what he intended. As admirable as conscientiousness and forbearance may be in theory, Plutarch never succeeds in making them more than mildly interesting. The two leaders who stand out among his biographies are the most controversial, Alcibiades and Alexander Alcibiades, you may remember, being the handsome young troublemaker whom Socrates flirts with in The Symposium, who defaced the herms in the Athenian agora, encouraged the disastrous Sicilian campaign and changed loyalties between Athens and Sparta as often as a tennis player changes teeshirts; and Alexander the young conqueror who died at 32, bringing glory but also despotism and chaos to the Macedonians. That these figures are more attractive than the others brings us to a problem that we know from our personal lives but don't often apply to democracy: namely, that what we need and what we want may be two different things. Who would disagree that virtues like generosity (megalophrosyne), kindness (philanthropia), ambition (philotimia), brilliance (lamprotes), and selfpossession (praotes) qualities that as Philip Stadter points out in the Oxford edition of Plutarch are found on inscriptions in hundreds of public sites in ancient Greece and Rome are exactly what any society would value in its leaders? Given the bureaucratic nature of government, we may need these modest, attainable virtues much more than heroic ones, and our best leaders, at least in peaceful times, may simply be people who understand the bureaucratic machinery and administer it with compassion and intelligence. But what we want and at certain crisis times may in fact need can run more along the lines of an Alexander or Alcibiades than a Solon or Pericles. Charismatic types bordering on despots. Napoleon. Bolivar. Roosevelt. Castro. Men filled with a gigantic sense of selfimportance, even megalomania, but also boundless energy. Men (and in the future women) who create grand systems that only function well under their leadership and then collapse after they're gone, but who move history a few steps "forward." In short, people with heroic vision but who also threaten the checks and balances of democracy. Which brings us right back around to Campbell, at least to that aspect of the hero who knows something that no one else knows, and insists on selling it to the rest of the world. In practical terms, it appears that there's a fine line between heroes and demagogues, and this is what gets us into trouble. Do we really want demagogues as leaders? Unfortunately, like it or not, that seems to be where we're heading in the present phase of history. Le Pen, Haider, Bin Laden, the forces gathering behind George Bush all suggest a lessening of democratic participation and a wish on the part of large segments of the population for despots. No doubt this has to do with a pervasive sense of instability, precariousness, in the world. Both our economic and political systems seem frayed at the edges, maybe even riddled by organic flaws. Not only threatened from within, we also feel threatened by a vague but palpable Enemy people to the East who've been neglected by us and abused by their own leaders gathering outside our gates. No one knows exactly who should lead us. Won't someone please tell us what to do?
August 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM