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Originally Posted by Ohio
As bad as it was, it really was a mild case. Notice the ingredients. Three parties always present. Perfector, perfectee, willing audience. The power is wielded via the laughing audience. The humbled perfectee like a dog without dignity. The mighty perfector making an example out of every perceived flaw. No one dared to ever come to the perfectee's side, rather relieved that someone else, anyone else, is in the hot seat. Such was LC "entertainment."
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I guess I might find that video to be a little more shocking than most here. I never saw Lee speak in person, so I never got to witness his "perfecting" first hand. I have only experienced the more subtle types of perfecting that go on. Lee did set the precedent of perfecting in the LC. Perfecting someone usually involves being nit-picky about what someone says. I know I've been corrected for saying "Chinese saints" instead of "Chinese speaking saints". Whats the difference? I don't see the big deal.
It is all too easy to point out flaws in other people. If someone is in a position of leadership and they commonly point out other people's flaws, it really reinforces their position of superiority, unless their subordinates are willing to call them out for who they really are.
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Originally Posted by aron
And I find the lack of reciprocity or mutuality to be glaring. Everyone laughs when the perfecting one points out the flaws of the trainee. But what if someone, anyone, dared suggest that anything coming from the perfector was "not so good"? Any footnote, any comment, any "flow", any "leading", any outline section, any phrase? Watch how quickly the laughter dries up and everyone freezes with fear. No!! The perfectees must not question God's Oracle, God's Deputy! Don't be "negative"!!
How can anyone "confess your sins one to another" in such an environment? How can anyone "be subject one to another"? Impossible: the lack of mutuality forbids it.
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Lee certainly owed this brother an apology for how he treated him, but obviously everyone was paralyzed in fear, so no one would dare speak out. In a meeting where members of the audience are called upon, there should be an expectation that there will be mutuality. Not so in the LC.