The people who say they know...
Old Man Jenkins67
Those who present themselves as rational or spiritual guideposts, as beacons in the darkness, were we to know them intimately, we would shrink at the utter vacuity or turmoil of their interior landscapes.
I challenge you to get close to anyone who passes himself or herself off as a moral or spiritual authority, you will find yourself sucked into a world of problems that a panel of psychiatrists could not begin to describe.
The television anchor with his air of gray templed authority; the cable commentator radiating moral certitude; the great statesmen in his dark suit and striped tie standing on an airport tarmac before a battery of microphones; the violent dogmatic leader from his mountain headquarters, interviewed by Al Jazeera with the fire of religious fervor burning hotly in his eyes. All of them, people with problems.
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I think Ayn Rand might be a good example of this complex: a woman who insisted she examined everything rationally, but was, according to her intimates, possesed of raging jealousies. (Pace, folks. I enjoyed The Fountainhead and Atlas, too.)