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EPISODE · Oct 16, 2024 · 11 MIN

Some of Our Leaders Disdain For The Everyday Person. Why?

from An Evolving Man Podcast · host Piers Cross

Why do some of our political, business, and societal leaders seem to have such disdain and in some cases almost hatred for the everyday person?Where might these attitudes come from?Where does the sense of entitlement, and even looking down on those that they serve arise from?I was reading Jeremy Paxman's autobiography A Life in Questions last night. I came across a passage where he talks about his prep boarding school.He sees the headmaster's son set light to the moors. Once the police come the son blames the local “teddy” boys 'who were blamed for just about everything that went wrong in the school.'As George Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: 'Common people seemed almost subhuman.'In today's video I share about some of my own similar experiences at boarding school. How we looked down upon the porters, the cleaners and saw them as less than human.I also talk about Nick Duffell from Wounded Leaders asking: 'Could it be that the British working class as an entire group have been suffering from projective identification from the upper classes?''Have they been standing in for the stupid, messy, incompetent children the latter wish to distance themselves from in their own collective psyche?'I also share some of Richard Beard's thoughts from Sad Little Men.#workingclass #disdain #leadersTake care,Piers---Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems. He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man. He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1 For more videos please visit: http://youtube.com/pierscross For FB: https://www.facebook.com/pierscrosspublic For Piers' website and a free training How To Find Peace In Everyday Life: https://www.piers-cross.com/community Many blessings, Piers Cross http://piers-cross.com/ 

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