I posted this question is another thread in the TKD forum. In a few threads in this forum it came up again in various ways.I thought I'd bring it up here because I think I've figured out what I was trying to ask.
One of my favorite episodes of "The West Wing" is when they bring in the character of Will. Before he could be fully "in", they put him in a position where he had to tell the President a difficult Truth.....to see if had trouble telling truth to power.
In MA we are asked to be subservient to an instructor, "sensei," "shihan," "master", "grandmaster" etc. in order to learn an art. The best instructors teach us to own the art for ourselves & grow into the authority to teach others. The worst take the authority given to them as reason to feed their own egos & stunt the growth process of those under them.
Maybe it goes back to our own childhood as to which type of authority we expect or accept. Maybe I'm just learning of my own growth process in my question....How do we say "no" to the authorities above us? How do we tell truth to power? How come that for some people in some places its easy & for others its like remembering a bad experience being reprimanded by a teacher as a child? Maybe my question is....How do we learn to tell Truth to Power? How did you learn?
One of my favorite episodes of "The West Wing" is when they bring in the character of Will. Before he could be fully "in", they put him in a position where he had to tell the President a difficult Truth.....to see if had trouble telling truth to power.
In MA we are asked to be subservient to an instructor, "sensei," "shihan," "master", "grandmaster" etc. in order to learn an art. The best instructors teach us to own the art for ourselves & grow into the authority to teach others. The worst take the authority given to them as reason to feed their own egos & stunt the growth process of those under them.
Maybe it goes back to our own childhood as to which type of authority we expect or accept. Maybe I'm just learning of my own growth process in my question....How do we say "no" to the authorities above us? How do we tell truth to power? How come that for some people in some places its easy & for others its like remembering a bad experience being reprimanded by a teacher as a child? Maybe my question is....How do we learn to tell Truth to Power? How did you learn?