Being a prophet sucks in part because you can clearly see that correct thing that everybody should do… but nobody understands you and are constantly misinterpreting you or not listening to you or seeing you as a threat to their power.
Turns out this part doesn’t suck because being a prophet you also understand this is going to happen and are accepting of it and work with it. It only counter-factually sucks to the non-prophet imaging what it would be like to be a prophet.
At least for some sufficiently advanced prophet. I think Sarah is using “prophet” in a way that your interpretation makes sense, as in many people will be in what I might instead call the “advisor” category.
I think prophets vary in whether they are “the sort of enlightened which comes bundled with equanimity.”
I agree advisor generally works, but not for the use case (important to this post) wherein someone does lead, but isn’t at the top of the pecking order.
Turns out this part doesn’t suck because being a prophet you also understand this is going to happen and are accepting of it and work with it. It only counter-factually sucks to the non-prophet imaging what it would be like to be a prophet.
At least for some sufficiently advanced prophet. I think Sarah is using “prophet” in a way that your interpretation makes sense, as in many people will be in what I might instead call the “advisor” category.
I think prophets vary in whether they are “the sort of enlightened which comes bundled with equanimity.”
I agree advisor generally works, but not for the use case (important to this post) wherein someone does lead, but isn’t at the top of the pecking order.