The Caesar Principle in Leadership Role-Playing

Of course the Tahitians might have considered Gauguin as equally primitive as he considered them. And we must note, for these Europeans who like to discover people that when Gauguin went to Tahiti he didn’t necessarily discover any Tahitians, he discovered himself. He didn’t conquer any Tahitians necessarily, but according to Cervantes, he conquered himself.

So what do you do if you find yourself playing Caesar in your leadership role. What do you do with your mark anthonies?

By recognizing this pattern, you can alter the role. By not recognizing this pattern, you simply find yourself playing the role.

This is the importance again of role-playing recognizing the stereotypes, archetypes of their civilizations, so that when they can into a role, they do not have to always play the role according to their civilizations understanding of the role.

In addition, when other people who have certain stereotypical and archetypal understandings try to get them to play the role according to some naive and intuitive stereotype or archetype they are able to say yes or no. But they do so with a freedom and self-conscious understanding.

This is no different from people who understand customs, values, mores and folkways on the self-conscious and not on the primitive level. They often appear “crazy” to their societies and civilizsations, but nevertheless they have a certain freedom that others do not have.

However, if they want to discuss why they object to certain customs, values, mores, and folkways, they have to talk to experts and professional people that understand their objections, along with them, on the professional and expert level. The so-called people are certain not going to understand them, because they just follow the customs, values, mores and folkways of their societies. They have been doing so for centuries. Societies need these people to maintain a certain cohesiveness; but they also need the professionals, experts, and scholars that understand on the professional level.

For example, Jospeh Mbele has a book sold at Lulu Press that discusses the difference between American and African culture. Americans visiting Africa need to know the difference from a professional African scholar. Africans need an African scholar to study their culture, their customs and folkways and who can communicate with Americans in a language that American understand, and who knows on a self-conscious level the customers of both Americans and Africans. These types of experts are needed along with the Americans and Africans who just go along with their customs, values, principles, folkways, civilizations without thinking self-consciously about these.

This is the same self-consciousness that is necessary in role-playing. We need the intuitive role-players, but we also need the experts and the self-conscious role-players, and scholars similar to Mr. Mbele.

Should Julius Caesar have understood The Caesar Principle, perhaps we might have had a different history. Or perhaps not. However, he is the archetype for many of this type of role-playing.