Self-Esteem
The third layer is self-esteem:
The child learns to do things and enjoys doing them. A few people get hooked there — they become technicians they become performers actors they become politicians they become the showmen. The basic theme is the doer; they want to show the world that they can do something. If the world allows them some creativity, good. If it does not allow them creativity they become destructive.
Did you know that Adolf Hitler wanted to enter an art school? He wanted to become a painter that was his idea. Because he was refused. Because he was not a painter because he could not pass the entrance examination in art school — that rejection was very hard for him to accept — his creativity turned sour. He became destructive. But basically he wanted to become a painter, he wanted to do something. Because he was not found capable of doing it, as revenge, he started being destructive.
The criminal and the Politician are not very far away, they are cousin-brothers. If the criminal is given the right opportunity he will become a Politician, and if the Politician is not given the right opportunity to have his say, he will become a criminal. They are border cases. Any moment, the politician can become a criminal and the criminal can become a politician. And this has been happening down the ages, but we don’t yet have that insight to see into things.
