CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS

Been doing a lot of reading lately and a lot of re-reading too.

One that was in the pile was The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray.

This little passage caught the eye…

“Don’t you understand, Kelvin? Haven’t you got the point? All these chairmen and directors and governors and politicians, they’re all confidence tricksters. Nobody but a fool thinks they they’re more virtuous than the rest of us, and you’ve pointed out yourself that they don’t even know more. Then why do they get up there? Because most people are so afraid of running their own lives that they feel frightened when there’s no-one to bully them. So we get a gang of bullies and tricksters ordering us about and getting very well paid for it.

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