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Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.

The Hero Was Distinguished By His Achievement; The Celebrity By His Name Or Trademark.

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The Republic Of Technology Where We Will Be Living Is A Feedback World.

The Institutional Scene In Which American Man Has Developed Has Lacked That Accumulation From Intervening Stages Which Has Been So Dominant A Feature Of The European Landscape.