[Gilpo]

If you haven't read Greene's Yale Speech <http://www.powerseductionandwar.com/archives/robert_greene_y..., it's worth it.

"There are three types of people in this world in dealing with this social reality. There are, what I call, the deniers, the people who deny this reality exists. They almost want to pretend that we are descended from angels and not from primates."

"Among these deniers, you will find two types. You will find people who are genuinely disturbed by the politicking aspect of human nature. They don't want any kind of job in which they have to do that. You will find that they are slowly marginalized. They can be happy that way. They are never going to assume a position of great responsibility because it involves all of this."

"The other branch of the deniers are the people that are the passive-aggressors. ... People who consciously don't want to admit that there is any kind of manipulation involved, but unconsciously are playing all kinds of games."

"The second type of person besides the deniers are those who love this Machiavellian part of our nature and revel in it and are master manipulators, and con artists, and connivers and are very aggressive."

The third type is what I am calling the radical realist. It is what I am proposing that you adopt."