{"id":2138,"date":"2025-06-25T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:28:57","slug":"when-the-leaders-are-the-dangerous-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/when-the-leaders-are-the-dangerous-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"When the leaders are the dangerous ones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to dismiss outspoken critics of OTO as egotistical or mentally unwell. I thought, &#8220;They\u2019re just bitter.&#8221; But what I see now is that, even if that\u2019s true in some cases, the people running the organization are often just as egotistical and unwell\u2014only they&#8217;re in positions of power. And worse: the system protects them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more disturbing truth is that emotional <a><\/a>immaturity and instability are not disqualifying traits in leadership. In fact, they\u2019re often rewarded. Meanwhile, people who speak out are discredited and discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when I finally stepped back and saw that clearly, I realized the problem isn\u2019t just a few \u201cdisgruntled\u201d ex-members. The problem is that the organization treats accountability like a threat\u2014and instability like a prerequisite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to dismiss outspoken critics of OTO as egotistical or mentally unwell. I thought, &#8220;They\u2019re just bitter.&#8221; But what I see now is that, even if that\u2019s true in some cases, the people running the organization are often just as egotistical and unwell\u2014only they&#8217;re in positions of power. And worse: the system protects them&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[488],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oto-high-control-group-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}