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Those in power don’t need more power. They need criticism. They need a mirror.
Speaker: Zeev SternhellPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Those in power don’t need more power. They need criticism. They need a mirror.
Yet another piece of the solution dropped into place when my friend Judy said that the problem was trying to stop the jealousy and competitiveness, and that the main thing was not to let it fuel my self-loathing. She said it was nuts for me to try to be happy for this other writer. I cannot tell you how much this helped. I was raised in a culture that promotes this competitiveness, this insatiability, this fantasy of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then, in the next breath, shames you for any feelings of longing or envy of fear that it will always be someone else’s turn. I was only doing what I had been groomed to do.