As a series of essays, At First Glance examines how a system of living that lacks a dedicated curriculum to educate individuals about their inherent credibility limits one's options for developing self-perception. Unaware of their own inner credibility, individuals tend to use outside experiences to define themselves. Without an appreciation of one's inner character, an individual cannot apply their reliable internal influence when processing experiences in life. They will be unable to develop a moral blueprint that would lead them to honor the inherent qualities with which they were born, and instead their self-perception is inflated or deflated based on external experiences. As a result, they will solely pursue credibility and relevance based on external status and material wealth instead of goodness and honor. At First Glance explores how this lack of a moral blueprint, this moral impoverishment, results in the emergence of a will to survive ideology that compels individuals to achieve power, authority, and superiority over others using skills such as deception, inequity, and corruption. This ideology necessitates benefiting from economic, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, political, and educational inequalities to sustain positive experiences, a race for credibility and relevance that can be ruthless and cruel. At First Glance proposes that the way to withdraw from the travesty of humanity devouring itself is to develop a will to live ideology, which recognizes and honors innate attributes that embody substantive character. This ideology generates a genuine credibility and relevance that surpasses any need to diminish human life in order to succeed.

At First Glance: False Assumptions by Power and Authority

Leonard, Lorenzo D.

Religion & Spirituality

Lorenzo D. Leonard

Tribalism isn't new to the human experience. In fact, it's been around as long as humankind. However, lately, the will to survive has grown with intensity and has given rise to a distorted sense of self-importance and self-indulgence. Self-interest has come to divide people and destroy a vital sense of community and civility that bonds a society. Author Lorenzo D. Leonard has studied this phenomenon and introduces an alternative way of life: the will to live. The education, development, and practice of commendable character exposes a person's innate qualities of good. Leonard proclaims how the attainment of personal credibility and relevance becomes less of an external focus and more of an internal fulfillment through the process of character development. However, this is only the case when an individual can put aside the will to survive and embrace the will to live. Tribalism becomes less of a concern when the qualities of transparency, accountability, integrity, and community are adopted. The Rules of Engagement: The Will to Live vs. The Will to Survive is a deep dive into the very ideas that transition people into being more humane with one another. Within this literary body of work, readers will recognize the signs of a life lived authentically as well as the limitations that come with a distorted sense of power and superiority.

Rules of Engagement: The Will to Live vs. the Will to Survive

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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At First Glance: False Assumptions by Power and Authority

Rules of Engagement: The Will to Live vs. the Will to Survive