Temperament Theory

Nothing enrages and disappoints me more than does so called Temperament theory. It's akin to typecasting and minimizes the individuality of every, separate, human being, and their capacity to bend for any task.

Let me begin by pointing out that this year's Basketball MVP is likely to be a guy named Nash who plays for Phoenix, The Suns. He's short, he's white, he has long hair, and he scores, scores and scores some more. He's like the other short scorer the one on the 76's, the one who was nice enough, thank you, to represent America in the Olympics when others wouldn't.

Temperament theory is having its temporary day in the sun because clever hustlers convinced American big business that they'll have more malleable employees if they hired on the basis of types of temperament. These creatures who use the "Briggs Myers Type Indicator MBTI" (see how they scurry for jargon?!) I reverse the names for insult: they have everything backwards, & do so to make money.  

Apparently the current popularizer book on TT (I can't type out those disgusting words anymore today) is titled Please Understand me II

"Please understand me"? Huh?  To which I shout at the top of my lungs, "Stand up and make yourself understood!"

This miserable book obviates all notions of individual responsibility, and encourages the weak and depressed, who maybe need to take a look at their diet and how much they exercize, to blame all their employment, marital, spiritual woes on their having been born with the wrong temperament. Hogwash, BS and criminal irresponsibility to foster such a mewling, puking bunch of baloney. And yet, there are bastions of higher learning that actually propagandize antique theories originating thousands of years ago and since discredited by numerous disciplines, as well as by common sense and observation of the world and its hugely diverse peoples. Don't fall for this crap. If you think you don't have long enough legs for tennis, move faster.

The ocean of ignorance and prejudice must continually be walled up against. Let's build a dike to contain Temperament Theory and work diligently to expose it for the crackpot excuse it is for avoiding getting the job done. There are millions of lives deliberately put on hold because they believe they have been cursed at birth with the wrong temperament for what they really want to accomplish.  

There are enlightenment seminars to teach, perhaps indirectly, what's wrong with Temperament Theory. One such is called Landmark Education. It's in many, if not most American cities. They won't attack it head on, as I will with great enthusiasm, because they have a general rule against making anyone wrong, but I'm not so coy.

Good luck. Remember to write, ha!