The Highest Incentive … Or the Strongest?

In sales, walkaway power is pricing power. And walkaway power is leveraged by the power of having an available alternative. To what degree of power does self-interest hold the intellect?  Does the intellect have an alternative?  Or, is it already the alternative? 

If either self-interest or clarity of thought should find a distinction between them, an exclusive choice, who would pay the higher price?  ... who would follow whom?

For a human to become more than his animality he must not only achieve the clarity that spies the difference but in having spied that difference accept that the animal has not evolved to accommodate this clarity, but that it has evolved to accommodate its rank, and that in over-crowding, everyone finds his health if there is an alternate ladder possible within his condition.  For a very few, clarity of thought constitutes in itself their projection of rank, precisely feeling it by having defined the difference between this state of mind and the natural animal state. From here it makes no sense to force truth onto those who will only be sickened by it, and in this very process show that we have not progressed far enough to see how our dominance mechanism is at play, precisely when we claim to “help” them.  Forcing rank relations onto the world, by employing Truth, is an extension of animal behavior, compromising the behavior that Truth demands of stronger spirits. It has the additional disadvantage of leaving one’s outcome dependent upon other’s interpretations and the prevailing conditions … conditions which both determine our innovative ladders of rank and now prevent their ladders, which had been created precisely to overcome the recognition of ever-present subordination. Over neither of the above does one have sufficient control.  They are drowning and drag us down with them.  The show of sufficiency is dependent.   The eye alone is sufficient.  When clarity is not enough, neither are we.

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