{"id":9555,"date":"2010-05-19T08:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2010-05-20T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:15:28","slug":"commentary-should-prime-minister-skerrit-seek-treatment-for-hubris-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/commentary-should-prime-minister-skerrit-seek-treatment-for-hubris-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Should Prime Minister Skerrit seek treatment for Hubris Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9556\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skerrit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9556\" title=\"skerrit\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skerrit-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skerrit-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skerrit.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By JERRY BRISBANE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord Owen retired politician and physician in his book \u201cThe Hubris Syndrome, Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power\u201d defines power as a privileged opportunity to influence and sometimes determine, the turn of events. It is a heady drug which not every political leader has the necessary rooted character to counteract.<\/p>\n<p>The Greeks developed the notion of Hubris to explore this aspect of the powerful. A hubristic act was one in which a powerful figure, puffed up with overweening pride and self-confidence, treated others with insolence and contempt. They seemed to get kicks from using their power to treat others in this way, but such dishonouring behaviour was strongly condemned in ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<p>In Greek drama, according to Lord Owen, a hubristic career developed somewhat like this. The hero wins glory and acclamation by achieving unwonted success against the odds. The experience then goes to their head: they begin to treat others, mere ordinary mortals, with contempt and disdain and they develop such confidence in their own ability that they begin to think themselves capable of anything. This excessive self-confidence leads them into misinterpreting the reality around them and into making mistakes. Eventually they get their just deserts and meet their nemesis, which destroys them.<\/p>\n<p>Nemesis is the name of the goddess of retribution and often in Greek drama the gods arrange nemesis because a hubristic act is one in which the perpetrator tries to defy the reality ordained by them. The hero committing the hubristic act seeks to transgress the human condition, imagining themselves to be superior and to have powers more like the gods. But the Gods will have none of that so it is they who destroy them. The moral is that we should be aware of allowing power to go to our heads. The Greeks knew that the gods whom we might refer to as reality do not stand for Hubris and demand humility.<\/p>\n<p>In its modern usage, hubris denotes overconfident pride and arrogance; it is often associated with a lack of humility, not always with the lack of knowledge. An accusation of hubris often implies that suffering or punishment will follow, similar to the occasional pairing of hubris and nemesis in the Greek world. The proverb &#8220;pride goes before a fall&#8221; is thought to sum up the modern definition of hubris.<\/p>\n<p>Owen says that Hubris Syndrome is almost an occupational hazard for leading politicians and is associated with key external factors such as holding substantial power, minimal constraint on the leader exercising such personal authority; and the length of time they stay in power. Furthermore the havoc which hubristic heads of government can wreck is usually suffered by the people in whose name they govern.<\/p>\n<p>He gives examples of two different forms of Hubristic syndrome in the manner and conduct of former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during and after the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Owen claims that the behavioral symptoms in a head of government which might trigger the diagnosis of Hubris Syndrome typically grow in strength and are represented by three or four symptoms from the following tentative list.<\/p>\n<p>1. A narcissistic propensity to see their world primarily as an arena in which to exercise power and seek glory;<br \/>\n2. A predisposition to take actions which seem likely to cast the individual in a good light\u2014i.e. in order to enhance image;<br \/>\n3. A disproportionate concern with image and presentation;<br \/>\n4. A messianic manner of talking about current activities and a tendency to exaltation;<br \/>\n5. An identification with the nation, or organization to the extent that the individual regards his\/her outlook and interests as identical;<br \/>\n6. A tendency to speak in the third person or use the royal \u2018we\u2019;<br \/>\n7. Excessive confidence in the individual&#8217;s own judgement and contempt for the advice or criticism of others;<br \/>\n8. Exaggerated self-belief, bordering on a sense of omnipotence, in what they personally can achieve;<br \/>\n9. A belief that rather than being accountable to the mundane court of colleagues or public opinion, the court to which they answer is: History or God;<br \/>\n10. An unshakable belief that in that court they will be vindicated;<br \/>\n11. Loss of contact with reality; often associated with progressive isolation;<br \/>\n12. Restlessness, recklessness and impulsiveness;<br \/>\n13. A tendency to allow their \u2018broad vision\u2019, about the moral rectitude of a proposed course, to obviate the need to consider practicality, cost or outcomes;<br \/>\n14. Hubristic incompetence, where things go wrong because too much self-confidence has led the leader not to worry about the nuts and bolts of policy;<\/p>\n<p>Decisive leadership is an asset in politics but Owen says that the decisive leaders who are most likely to avoid succumbing to Hubris Syndrome are usually those who are careful to retain a personal modesty as they stay in power, to keep their previous lifestyle and to eschew the trappings of power. They try to consult carefully even if during that process they may not alter their opinions. Above all in a democracy, they accept that the in built institutional checks and balances should be scrupulously respected and make little or no attempt to circumvent them, whether in Cabinet or Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the easiest surest way to cure Hubris Syndrome in a political leader is to leave office. Hubris disappears overnight. A respect and adherence to the democratic process also assist substantially.<\/p>\n<p>I ask the question of all Dominicans especially those closest to and who say they care so much for the Prime Minister whether he should seek treatment for Hubris Syndrome before it is too late for all of us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jerry Brisbane is Chairman of OD Brisbane and Sons Dominica Ltd.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>DISCLAIMER: The views in this commentary do not necessarily  reflect the views of the management and staff of Dominica News Online and its parent  company.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JERRY BRISBANE Lord Owen retired politician and physician in his book \u201cThe Hubris Syndrome, Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power\u201d defines power as a privileged opportunity to influence and sometimes determine, the turn of events. 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