Trending:
Inspirational
Another chance to breathe
Fake news and our role in limiting it
Globalization: The bridge of the changing world
What are the true qualities of a leader?
Express your viewpoints and stand a chance to win up to $500 AUD
Social governance: Governance at its best
  • About
  • Contact
  • Submit an Article
  • Top Stories
  • Education
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Sports
  • Top Stories
  • Education
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Sports
  • Top Stories
  • Education
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Sports
  • Home
  • Education

The poison in praise

  • May, 06
  • 342
  • Share:
The poison in praise

 

If you want to kill anyone, offer them an overdose of praise. The landscape of human relationships is strewn with tombstones of people killed not by stabs of pains but songs of praise.

Praise is a stimulant, soothing, and balmy. Therefore, praise is good. However, the potentials of praise render it a powerful manipulative weapon of influence; and compliance hunters inject their targets with the virus of praise to strip them of resistance and bring them under subservient control.

The strongest of us may not survive the manipulative effect of eulogies and flatteries. An overdose of panegyrics throws the senses into cognitive dissonance doing to a Solomon what narcotic does to a junkie. If you doubt me, imagine this scenario.

A brilliant virtuous woman on a bright career path is spontaneously weaned from chastity and discretion, falls for the wrong man and nestles her seething future in his freezing bosom. The man has neither cash nor brain, neither love nor faith.

But he has a feline tongue and a nimble pen to spin and spew epics of praise.  Fed with praise, a man's rational sensibility soon gives way to sheepish conformity. A young girl told me on her death-bed how she surrendered her honor to petting. If you're hooked on praise and applause, you're an easy catch for the crooks on a treasure hunt.

Traditional crooners know the frightening power of praise and leverage it to fleece their audience. They massage their ego with the balm of glowing epithets; which nestles them on a dream-land escalator and sends them to the fairy lands of candy mountains. By the time the schizophrenics return, their cash wallets will have been emptied. If you want to fleece anyone with ease first numb them with praise.

Only God can handle praise in any dose. The rest of us humans had better beware. Take praise in little shots and with a pinch of salt.

By Soji Ajayi-Albert

Email address: erujeje3@gmail.com




You may also like

A girl's words
Entertainment

A girl's words

  • 530 views
Direct or indirect elections for president?
Politics

Direct or indirect elections for president?

  • 409 views
Toastmasters International: Where leaders are made
Education

Toastmasters International: Where leaders are made

  • 548 views
Half-baked university graduates: A phenomenon in Kenya
Education

Half-baked university graduates: A phenomenon in Kenya

  • 350 views

Writer of the Month

  • Popular
Is Nigeria worth dying for?
Is Nigeria worth dying for?
Views: 224
Politics in the hinterland: Money, people and power
Politics in the hinterland: Money, people and power
Views: 114
A brief history on the ashes test series
A brief history on the ashes test series
Views: 101
India booming with new telecom companies and their offers
India booming with new telecom companies and their offers
Views: 85
Creative Education
Creative Education
Views: 35

Categories

  • Education (185)
  • Health (33)
  • Entertainment (91)
  • Business (19)
  • Politics (56)
  • Technology (22)
  • Sports (30)

Popular Stories

Creative Education
Creative Education
Views: 35
A brief history on the ashes test series
A brief history on the ashes test series
Views: 101
India booming with new telecom companies and their offers
India booming with new telecom companies and their offers
Views: 85

Subscribe to our newsletter







Top Stories

A brief history on the ashes test series
A brief history on the ashes test series
Views: 101
Politics in the hinterland: Money, people and power
Politics in the hinterland: Money, people and power
Views: 114
Creative Education
Creative Education
Views: 35

About us

DECENT eNews is an Australian online educative news project and a subsidiary of Decent Group International Ltd Pty. The primary aim of the project is to create a platform for passionate and enthusiastic content writers to showcase their talents to the world. The current project addresses issues of the cost of publication, exposure and inaccessibility to the right audience as faced by content writers in less privileged societies and many parts of the globe. DECENT eNews gives the content writers full rights and privileges to the write-ups so that they can establish direct contacts and enhance personal networks and outreach. Decent Group is a member of the Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd), Queensland branch (Editors Queensland), Australia.

  • Submit an Article
  • Education
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Sports

Contact Info

DECENT eNews
Australian Company Number (ACN): 629 627 032
Tel: 1300 451 388
admin@decentenews.com
PO Box 1029
GAILES QLD 4300


  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
© 2018 - 2019 Decent eNews. All rights reserved.