TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[alice wellintown]

> Yes, the Dale Carnegie book is sort of a secularized sermon on the mount
> with a material payoff.

Max Weber would agree. Charaismatic authority is outside the routine,
the profane sphere. Carnegie, like Jesus, is seed to fertile soil;
America repuditates the past, is a revolutionary force.

Hobbes would see just another artificial man:

If, the state of Nature is a state of war, to live, to prosper, to be
safe, all must reduce their seperate will s to the single arbitrary
will of an artificial person.

Hobbes:

Lastly, the agreement of these creatures is natural; that of men is by
covenant only, which is artificial: and therefore it is no wonder if
there be somewhat else required, besides covenant, to make their
agreement constant and lasting; which is a common power to keep them
in awe and to direct their actions to the common benefit.

The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend
them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another,
and thereby to secure them in such sort as that by their own industry
and by the fruits of the earth they may nourish themselves and live
contentedly, is to confer all their power and strength upon one man,
or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by
plurality of voices, unto one will: which is as much as to say, to
appoint one man, or assembly of men, to bear their person; and every
one to own and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that
so beareth their person shall act, or cause to be acted, in those
things which concern the common peace and safety; and therein to
submit their wills, every one to his will, and their judgements to his
judgement. This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity
of them all in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man
with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to every
man: I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man,
or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy
right to him, and authorise all his actions in like manner.