> Oh, certainly, and to be honest, I wasn't directing my comments
> against Jeff -- quite the opposite, as I think his Soprano analogy
> works very well. Everyone has the authority they can get away with
> asserting, and it lasts so long as they can force, persuade,
> inspire, bluff, cajole and buy people to accept it!
Exactly. I'm in full agreement with you here.
> One approach perhaps worth considering is that in a way there are
> two kinds of authority at work.
>
> 1. Directive.
> 2. Affiliative.
> Many of the people paying lipservice to Broyan's kingship in WW
will
> be 'commanded' by him in the former manner (when they obey him at
> all), while there are those directly beholded to him, or who
simply
> accept the need to subordinate themselves to a single figure, who
> fit into the latter.
This is spot on.
> To an extent, in this -- entirely fanciful and personal -- vision
of
> Broyan, he is thus shaped not so much by his inner virtues as by
the
> need to live up to the myths and expectations of those around him.
> And that may be an answer as why he does something so noble,
heroic
> but irrational and dangerous, as teleport onto the Bat: because
it's
> what people would expect of him.
Yep. That is the flip-side of being an Orlanthi leader.
Jeff
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