Polarity in Practice: Darkworkers

[schola]

Reading one of Steve's articles on polarity got me thinking about something I had read a while ago in Jared Diamond's "Collapse."

Rafael Trujillo was a ruthless dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic for about 30 years, taking power in the 1930s. He killed and tortured many political dissidents, and instituted a cruel police state.

Yet, in serving himself, he also single handedly modernized the Dominican Republic, creating a thriving economy and building a solid infrastructure that allowed the Dominican to flourish in relative peace while it's neighbor Haiti by comparison has experienced severe economic hardship and constant political instability.

Trujillo was completely self serving in his intentions. He basically ran the Dominican's industries as a private business, taking up to 10% of earnings for himself. Yet we must admit that in the process, he created a lot of good as well.

Of course there were other things that factored into the differences between Haiti and the Dominican Republic as well, which Diamond discusses, but Trujillo's effect on the Dominican's history can't be ignored.

What do you think? Is this a good example of a enlightened darkworker? Someone who, in taking for themselves, they also end up giving back too?

[Brutha]

Being a lightworker or a darkworker is about intentions. You don't know them by looking at someones results.

[schola]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Being a lightworker or a darkworker is about intentions. You don't know them by looking at someones results.

You'll have to elaborate. I'm not sure how this applies to my question.

Are you suggesting that we can't know another person's intentions, or that Trujillo's motivators were love and compassion instead of greed and fear?

[Ak47]

no, i don't think so because his INTENT wasn't to give back, it was personal gain.

it call comes down to the fundemental option. actions don't mean anything morally, intentions do...

maybe he did intend to give back. if that were the case though, i think he wouldn't have had people killed. :P

[ticktockclok]

I'd view him as an extremely low level darkworker.

[Old Soul]

What do you think? Is this a good example of a enlightened darkworker? Someone who, in taking for themselves, they also end up giving back too?

if the mans intent was to serve self in the first place, then to my understanding of enlightenment , there is no enlightement here.. because the object was coming from self about self

doesn't matter if in the process , some good came from it to benefit others