Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant
Immaturity
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By this definition all politicians are immature…
…and a lot of corporate types…
…along with teachers, librarians, investors, the married…
…and, in fact, pretty much everybody.
I believe that Kant meant the complete incapacity (“complete” actually is an unnecessary qualifier for “incapacity”).
Of course, the opposite is also a sign of immaturity – the incapacity to ever seek the guidance of another.
The first is a trait of the compliant follower, the second is a trait of many leaders.
(So, in a way, you are quite correct – for most people, some of the time.)
I should’ve added a winkie. 😉
Context matters, no?
And many snappy quotes only work within a specific context.
Like “lies, damn, lies, and statistics.”
Btw, it’s not just leaders who refuse to consult others before barreling ahead.
The self-absorbed arecalso defined thus. After all, they already know the correct path so why waste time looking at alternatives? 😀
‘Btw, it’s not just leaders who refuse to consult others before barreling ahead.’
You’re damn skippy.
Back in the 1960s, my father spent a week’s wages to buy my mother a set of newfangled non-stick saucepans. She, of course, loved them when she got them, but not for long. Soon she told him she never wanted to see such a pan again, because it had taken her two days of non-stop labour to scrape off all the nasty goo inside them.
That’s right. She scraped off the non-stick coating and complained about having to do it. My mother was constitutionally incapable of consulting anyone about anything, and when the fit took her, she had a marvellous faculty for inventing ways to do things wrong.
Ouch.
At least it didn’t qualify her for a Darwin Award.
Those folk are legion, both qualifiers and winners.