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Criticism

"Admonish him in his faults, and also receive admonition of him."
"Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."

Notes

There is an interesting cultural doctrine that we should not criticize our leaders. This even extends to the point that some say we should not criticize lesson manuals because the lesson manuals were put together by committees composed of people selected by our leaders.

In my view, this is an unhealthy cultural doctrine which comes from flaws in the Upholder worldview. When you are anchored in reality via authority figures, criticism of those authority figures then appears to challenge everything about reality. It is very threatening. Furthermore, you would then perceive that others would similarly be threatened, even though that is not true for the vast majority of people, and it even appears clear that Upholders themselves are fully capable of understanding that their leaders are fallable; they simply don't like to admit it and they prefer to live by outsourcing their decision making onto authority figures as much as possible. In reality, it is this preferred heuristic of trusting their leaders implicitly, that is threatened by such criticism.

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