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https://www.noemamag.com/the-secret-history-and-strange-future-of-charisma/>
"In 1929, one of Germany’s national newspapers ran a picture story featuring
globally influential people who, the headline proclaimed, “have become
legends.” It included the former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the Russian
revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and India’s anti-colonialist leader Mahatma
Gandhi. Alongside them was a picture of a long-since-forgotten German poet. His
name was Stefan George, but to those under his influence he was known as
“Master.”
George was 61 years old that year, had no fixed abode and very little was known
of his personal life and past. But that didn’t matter to his followers; to them
he was something more than human: “a cosmic ego,” “a mind brooding upon its own
being.” Against the backdrop of Weimar Germany — traumatized by postwar
humiliation and the collapse of faith in traditional political and cultural
institutions — George preached an alternate reality through books of poetry.
His words swam in oceans of irrationalism: of pagan gods, ancient destinies and
a “spiritual empire” he called “Secret Germany” bubbling beneath the surface of
normal life. In essence, George dreamed of that terribly persistent political
fantasy: a future inspired by the past. He wanted to make Germany great again."
Via
Future Crunch, who wrote:
Charisma is one of those concepts you never really think about until someone
unpacks it for you. What is it though? This is a great exploration by one of
Neoma’s best writers, Joe Zadeh. The hero of the story is none other than
sociology granddaddy Max Weber, and charisma, it turns out, lies as much in
the eye of the beholder as in the magnetic pull of the leader.
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https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews-stunting-ocean-australia-wind-solar-europe/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
