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By the same token, it would serve the interests of those who use the Cult of Personality, for their own interests, to reduce, eliminate or demean content, because in contrast, persona may seem shallow and become less effective for its intended uses. Eventually all heroes become a fiction by association, with the personas of the Cult of Personality.
The Cult of Personality serves to enforce the Authoritative, hierarchical and undemocratic propensities of the progressive system. Progression is authoritative, because it uses models and standards to which individuals must, or at least should, conform and correspond as progressed states, which are deemed as superior and deserving of respect, admiration, subservience, or obedience. It is hierarchical because the object of progression, is to produce elite states and individuals distinct from the common, and because control of productive capacities becomes concentrated.
It is undemocratic because, the very concept of progression is the achievement of advancing stages of hierarchical levels of development, which are meant to be exclusive of the average. The Cult of Personality promotes the individualistic propensities of progressive elitism, representing and promoting the personal images of elite achievement. It is also used to produce the illusion that such singular achievement is in some way possible for nearly anyone, wherein the true nature of most progressive achievement, involves complicated hierarchical organizations, to produce such accomplishments. The purpose of this illusion is to preserve concentrated power, by hiding its existence and shielding its methods, aims and purposes from the general population.
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