Sunday, October 12, 2008

Great Leaders, Bad Leaders, Followers

Great leaders can bring you out of dark times. Bad leaders will carry you to dark times, in their arms, while reassuring you of your safety.

Of course, as a leader, you'd need a following. As a bad leader it helps to have a following made up of people filled with hatred and fear. People that confuse old fears with new ones and commingle the two, or three, or more. It also helps to have vain followers. Those that think they themselves are smart enough to take on the challenges of a job like being president, when clearly they are average joes. Nothing against "joe six-pack" and "hockey moms". They just don't know the difference between energy independence and oil addiction.



Listen to what these people have to say as they wait in line. Pay attention to their body language and tone of voice. Understandably we do live in a turbulent time. These folks in line are speaking from their hearts and mean all that they say. There is no lying in them in regard to how they feel.



In this video there is an interviewer, who does a bad job, and those being interviewed, who also do a bad job. For the lack of professionalism the honesty of the interactions are startling. The actions and statements of the people on camera is absolutely unbelievable. It's amazing what people will convince themselves of. Now I know neither candidate is perfect. I just want verifiable reasons to make my decisions about them. For others it's more of a matter of taste, kinda like vanilla, or chocolate.



With so much feeling involved with these people I decided to include one move video of a very zealous, angry, blinded by rage and lacking in clear thought person. You may recognize him. Heck, you may even like him, agree with him... If that's the case, on any level, well...