The most successful leaders, he suggested, know how to manipulate the emotions of their followers: “The energy that actually shapes the world,” Orwell wrote, “springs from emotions—racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war.”Your own emotions, however, are not what you think they are.
Recent research on emotions http://www.affective-science.org/ points to indications that there is little or no difference between anger, sadness, and other bad feelings: it just feels bad. There are good feelings, too, but between these two big groups, finer distinctions turn out to be our own invention.
Here's the rub: if we as individuals form (create?) our own emotions, we are responsible for our reactions to people identified as "leaders". Go back to the top of this page.
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