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These people believe in the superiority of the movement's ideals, as opposed to the prevailing status quo. But rather than simply live the philosophy, they want to use and promote it far and wide for the general welfare. In affect their perspective is removed and outside the body of the constituency, and they consider themselves distinct from it, as promoters and go-between emissaries. This
means that they use the best of both worlds, and though they may speak against the decadence of the old, they continue to wallow in it. Many of these leaders are genuine but unconsciously misguided. Another problem is that it is easy for the establishment to plant these types of promoters, in order to subvert the movement and channel it away from its content into superficiality.
All movements that do not transcend the dynamics of Progressive Materialism, as Alternate Polarities, that retain the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative as a system of evaluation, are destined to the same potential failings. The most dangerous type of leader, to move to the fore, is the authoritarian. If with the original movement, individuals adopt ideals that are supposed to serve the individual, the authoritarian believes the ideals to be superior to and of greater consequence than the individual, to which they should serve. The philosophy and ideals become what are termed
Authoritative Dictates.
If these sorts of leaders become dominate, in the sense that they can control members of the movement by force, people will be forced to think, talk, look
and act the model. It does not matter if this is by imitation, without any real commitment or depth of understanding of the ideals. Superficial behavior becomes the mandatory or mandated practice. The ideals as authorities become more important than the people in general and the individual in particular, such that by mandated conformity there is no commitment. Movements such as Communism, Nazism, religious sects and fundamentalism, fascist political systems, militarism or corporate conformity are examples of these, where everyone is expected to look and act alike.
Popular movements will have an overriding or guiding philosophy that attracts
people to it. This philosophy begins by word of mouth and then is transmitted
by a movement's press, and by authors published in fringe press publications.
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