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| Characteristics of a Dying or Dead Psyche (Ralph Nader Type Mystical Mind) | Characteristics of a Living or Growing Psyche (Ray Kroc Type Business Mind) |
|---|---|
| Envious of others for their achievements, success, happiness, or material well-being. Resents heroes, value producers, and especially great business people and their productive accomplishments. | Envy-free. Admires and encourages individual achievement in self and others. |
| Operates on subjective feelings or wishes. Oriented toward short-range, value-destroying approaches to problems and goals. | Operates on objective principles. Oriented toward long-range, value-producing approaches to problems and goals. |
| Desires the destruction, distribution, or leveling of the wealth, happiness, and well-being earned by others. | Produces tradeable values. Desires a life of achievements and happiness for self and others. |
| Holds anti-individualistic views. Has egalitarian and collectivist desires to seize, destroy, and level values produced by others. | Orients around rational self-interests. Independently fills own needs through production of tradeable values for others. |
| Fears freedom, independence, and competition. Follows external "authorities" in religion and government. | Seeks freedom, independence, and competition. Rejects external "authorities". |
| Praises humble, selfless altruists. Attacks or maligns proud, productive achievers. | Admires and seeks productive achievers. |
| Unhappy with life. Only interludes of short-term happiness. Represses the tragedy of death. Recoils at the possibility of biological immortality. | Happy with life. Only interludes of short-term sadness. Recognizes the tragedy of death. Hails the possibility of human biological immortality as the highest moral goal. |
| Seeks government controls and laws that forcibly restrict and repress individual freedom. | Seeks freedom. Opposes all forms of initiatory force and oppression, especially government force and oppression of the individual. |
| Plagued with anxieties and self-doubts. | At ease and comfortable with self. Increasingly feels joyful life building within his or her physical and emotional self. |
| Holds a cynical or malevolent view of life and people. | Holds a benevolent view of life and people. |
| Life is viewed as unhappy and people as inherently destructive, wicked, or sinful. | Life is viewed as naturally happy, beautiful, exciting. People are viewed as inherently good, valuable, productive. |
| Emotionally and physically experiences life with increasing unhappiness and lethargy. | Experiences life with increasing joy and intensity. |
| Accepts harmful, mystical concepts such as original sin and predestination. | Rejects mystical concepts such as original sin and predestination. |
| Orients around mystical premises and beliefs in God, statism, astrology, the occult. | Orients around honesty and objective reality. |
| Orients around an altruistic, Platonistic phil
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