George Takei: "Not sure who the artist is, but yes. This."

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/821120552895184900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Donkees]

1. MLK: The Drum Major Instinct

Excerpt:

There comes a time that the drum major instinct can become destructive. And that's where I want to move now. I want to move to the point of saying that if this instinct is not harnessed, it becomes a very dangerous, pernicious instinct. For instance, if it isn’t harnessed, it causes one's personality to become distorted. I guess that's the most damaging aspect of it: what it does to the personality. If it isn't harnessed, you will end up day in and day out trying to deal with your ego problem by boasting. Have you ever heard people that—you know, and I'm sure you've met them—that really become sickening because they just sit up all the time talking about themselves. And they just boast and boast and boast, and that's the person who has not harnessed the drum major instinct.

And the other thing is that it causes one to engage ultimately in activities that are merely used to get attention. Criminologists tell us that some people are driven to crime because of this drum major instinct. They don't feel that they are getting enough attention through the normal channels of social behavior, and so they turn to anti-social behavior in order to get attention, in order to feel important.

And then the final great tragedy of the distorted personality is the fact that when one fails to harness this instinct, he ends up trying to push others down in order to push himself up. And whenever you do that, you engage in some of the most vicious activities. You will spread evil, vicious, lying gossip on people, because you are trying to pull them down in order to push yourself up. And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/

[annabanana]

6. REC TO THIS POST!

Clearly Drumpf has fallen victim to this syndrome ...

[lillypaddle]

2. Perfect nt

[Paladin]

4. God bless MLK for these timely comments.

And God bless George Takei, who has attained National Treasure status, as far as I'm concerned.

[bdamomma]

5. boy that is great

love it.