The Imperious Intellectual

She desperately hungers to rule others, and manage their affairs.

Her standards are impossibly high. Their motives must be lofty, grand, inspiring or selfless, or all that they touch or attempt is irredeemably tarnished.

If their work efforts or performance fall short of her standard of perfection, there can be no punishment too severe to be imposed on their for their shortcomings.

The kind, temperate, genuine intellectual is not drawn to managing the affairs of others. He lives in the real world. His standards are high but not impossible to reach. He praises and rewards more than scolds and punishes.

He accepts that people are weak, have bad days and come up short. He recognizes their impure fallen motives as useful for sublimation. He just keeps extolling them to learn from their mistakes, get back up, dust themselves off and try again and again until near perfection is theirs. In the real world that will have to suffice. In the real world as well as in the really real supernatural world, such achievement is valuable, acknowledged and appreciated.