Roles and Qualifications

President Richard Nixon, certainly among the least charismatic of American presidents, and the least likable–which become a problem for Mr. Nixon–understood that when he didn’t meet the mimimum standards of his role–had to resign. Had Richard Nixon been a “charmer” like a Bill Clinton, another presidential role-player, he might have even gotten away with Watergate. Many more charming presidents have had their versions of Watergate. There are American presidential corruptions perhaps greater than Watergate and yet these presidents are not forced to resign.

Role-players have to know when to play a role and when to resign from that role.

And those connected to role-players must determine if they are the appropriate person for that role-player.

Oprah Winfrey in playing her role appears to be a savvy role-player, knowing the role she wants to play and knowing the people that she wants to play that role along with her.

These are questions that role-players must discuss and those connected to role-players. Of course, the more people learn about role playing the less the spontaneity of many of these people, and that’s why a lot of people don’t like professional types, just pure, sheer professionals and many of the naive players of roles are more interesting people and interesting types and things are not so easily choreographed. Nevertheless, you need the pure, sheer professionals along with the more naive, and perhaps more spontaneous role-players. Certainly there are women who have worked with Bill Clinton, pure, sheer, professional woman not available to play with Bill Clinton or any of these other politicos. Surely there are not as interesting as his conquests maybe, but nevertheless they’re professionals. They are not available to play with him or anybody else in the political world while playing their roles. These are the types that helps to maintain a certain consistency in the government. And they are not the colorful types either. They are the political people that possibly nobody notices, like the professional role-players at the Vatican. People don’t notice these types and they don’t necessarily want to be noticed; they just do their work.

Role-players also have to decide or the so-called people decide when it’s time for a new generation of role-player to come forth. For example, you might have an actor the leading actor of his generation, then a new generation leading actor comes forth. Sometimes the actors decide upon this, sometimes the people decide upon this. And people should not try to “stay in power,” it’s good when new generations of leadership come forward. The role for the older generation should be a mentor or apprenticeship role. They play the role of their generation, then they become mentors or apprenticeships for the new generation. Even though Third World types like staying in power, like with Fidel Castro, and many times nobody can compete with these leaders, nevertheless it’s better for them to retire like others do, and then become mentors for new leadership. However, the Third World is very different from the First World. But the Third World should probably learn how to have elder statespeople, as with Nelson Mandela. Revolutionaries do not always make the best bureaucrats, the day to day details of running and managing governments, although they must have a leading role in the directions of their countries. This is yet a problem of third-world role-playing.