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Originally Posted by Sam988  I don't agree with you. Who said that polarizing/moving to the DW path is easier?
For LW you don't have to challenge many widespread beliefs, for DW you have to.
Our culture largely suggests that LW is good and DW is evil, bad. You have to have a pretty open mind to challenge all those "common sense" beliefs. And as a DW you have to be constantly hiding your true beliefs and intentions because you obviously don't want others to know about it. But when LWing, you can be more genuine, which requires much less energy than a DW that can only show his true self under an anonymous figure (like on these forums) or among his closest peers. |
Mediocrity, timidity, and denial are rampant beliefs and practices that both darkworkers and lightworkers must shed on their path to greatness. I'd say that helps to even the scales.
In addition, our culture largely suggests that LW is bad and DW is bad. If you're strongly in support of something (an activist) you're a loon, or obsessive compulsive, or some other nomenclature used to negatively identify over-achievers depending on how you approach the issue.
There are few successful people who are openly embraced as role models that rose to success through benevolent means. The successful people who rose to success and now show flaws are also shamelessly sprawled across tabloids and ridiculed for things that should be of no concern of those reading (apparel? physical shape? who are we to judge?)
"Our culture" right now seems to be geared towards being in the middle. I think Steve is just shining more light on the fact that there are people out there who aren't being publicized but are making strong impacts on their surroundings.
To the second bolded point, I think darkworkers can let their dreams and aspirations show, just not their motives. This is not difficult to do whatsoever and can be done without lying.
Do I want to live the lifestyle of someone who makes $10k a month doing web design for 10 hours a week? Yes. Would I take cutthroat action to get there? How do you know, and how would you find out? I'll still just look like some guy who is trying to expand and market his web deisgn skills.
People are often so concerned about themselves (myself included) that they fail to realize or even consider the motives of others. Darkworkers can very well use this to their benefit.