Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013)

Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013) by dpark on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:38PM (#13691661)

>Another interesting tidbit noted by many anthropologists is that boasting is strictly forbidden.

Are you saying that this applies to every tribe in the world? Because if so, I don't buy it. It's too far fetched that every tribe in the world except everyone who advanced past the hunter gatherer stage would share this cultural trait. Aside from it being unreasonable that all tribes would share this trait, it would also seem to imply that modest people cannot advance to the modern age, which is also difficult to swallow.

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Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013) by bjourne on Monday February 20, 2017 @06:02PM (#13691821)

No, I should have clarified that my comment was only about the San people, aka Bushmen. Those people are the closest to how humans lived for thousands of years before they wandered out of Africa.

I don't think other primitive peoples have designated leadership roles either, like we do, but I'm not sure.

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Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013) by dpark on Monday February 20, 2017 @06:39PM (#13692021)

Ok. I don't have any trouble believing that could be a cultural trait of those peoples. Thanks for clarifying.

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