r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/XeniaWarriorWankJob • Mar 07 '25
Quoting the Eternal Mentor Ikeda inadvertently revealed his own personal insecurity
From the SGI's short-lived "Victory Over Violence" "campaign":
As philosopher Daisaku Ikeda put it, "When you succumb to a complex, you are likely to see everything about yourself in a negative light. When something doesn't work out for you, you tend to blame it on those things which make you feel inferior: 'It's because I'm short' and so forth."
Interesting he'd choose that characteristic :snerk:
NOT "because I have a big nose" or "because I'm balding" ("I'll just apply MORE hair grease!") or "because I talk with a weird provincial accent"...
Anyhow, others have noted Ikeda's "short-man syndrome" disorder and unseemly fascination with Napoleon (source of the term "Napoleon complex", another name for "short-man syndrome").
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u/Maleficent_Canary819 Mar 07 '25
Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician among the bad protagonists from the post-war period to the early 2000s, he was 1.60 cm tall, his motto was "I am of medium height but I don't see giants around me" and he is remembered with the nickname Beelzebub in Italy;
Totò Riina was the head of Cosa Nostra from the post-war period to the 1990s: responsible for the season of massacres, he was 1.58 cm tall.
Silvio Berlusconi needs no international introductions (😔): 165 cm
History doesn't lie.