“Brilliance is wasted when you treat people like dolls and life like a shareholders’ meeting.”
— The Sage
The Sage has always been wary of systems that measure everything but understand very little. When people are reduced to figures, roles, or assets, something essential is lost. To treat a person like a doll — positioned, adjusted, and displayed — is to overlook their agency, complexity, and quiet unpredictability. And brilliance, he suggests, cannot thrive in such tidy arrangements.
He observes that modern life often resembles a shareholders’ meeting: performance reviewed, value calculated, outcomes scrutinised. There is nothing inherently wrong with accountability, The Sage admits — but when every interaction becomes transactional, creativity begins to wither. Brilliance requires room, trust, and the freedom to exist without constant appraisal.
With gentle but pointed humour, The Sage reminds us that true brilliance emerges when people are treated not as assets to manage, but as minds to respect. Dolls may be arranged and shareholders may vote — but brilliance grows only where humanity is allowed to breathe.
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