Friday, July 12, 2013

There IS Another Way...

"There are two kinds of people in this world - leaders and followers." Or so the prevailing cultural wisdom would have you believe. There's a fundamental problem with this 'truism,' namely that's it's not true at all. What's more, it's been mercilessly promoted because the people who fancy themselves either as 'leaders' or 'followers' MUST have your compliance for this mendacious mental programming to work. Well reality has a way of bulldozing though bullshit like a sledgehammer through a paper-mache' sculpture, so let's have a look at this 'conventional wisdom' and see why it's full of feces...
'Leaders' historically have been individuals who, through brute force, coersion, persuasion or manipulation have imposed their vision of the 'proper' social order upon others. Much propaganda has been made over the centuries lionizing the 'achievements' of most so-called 'leaders' in the form of poetry, songs, paintings, written works and the like. The problem is, in order for there to be 'leaders,' everyone else must be considered inferior, deemed incapable or unworthy of determining their own fates by the usually self-appointed 'leadership.' Essentially people who look down upon their fellow humans decide that they themselves are privileged by virtue of fiat (declaration), and this gives them the right to steal from, mislead, abuse, torture, imprison, kill and basically screw the lives up of everybody else. 'Leaders' are seldom chosen by those they actually rule over; they typically seize power by force or intrigue, or they are appointed by the true 'leadership' as figureheads to divert attention away from the real powers behind the throne. Either way, only the gullible believe that leaders have their best interests at heart. They don't. They're in it to feather their nests, game, set and match. People who need to be 'in charge' are from my own personal experience sociopaths who will lie, cheat and steal in order to maintain power. For them the domination of others is like heroin to a junkie - they just gotta have it! They see the world - with everyone and everything in it - as their own personal plaything.


'Followers' on the other hand are people for whom self-determination, motivation, innovation and self-respect have been either beaten or bred out of them for the most part. They have been indoctrinated with the belief that they are not smart enough, strong enough, good looking enough or 'hard' enough to be in charge of their own lives, much less 'important' tasks as defined by the 'leadership.' These 'followers' are actively conditioned through public/private education, advertising, marketing, stilted TV sitcom plots and movie themes that only 'special' people are meant to make the 'big' decisions, not 'little' people of lesser ability or intellect. Like themselves. Even though they rarely are privy to the facts which would show them that their 'leaders' aren't necessarily any smarter, stronger or better than they are themselves. 'Followers' differ from 'leaders' in just two basic points: followers are usually honest and timid, whereas 'leaders' are typically liars with huge amounts of cunning. Other than that, both parties have to eat, shit and get laid like everybody else. Therefore neither denomination can really be considered 'special.' Because they aren't special, only human.

So is that really all there is? Are we really slated to be either an asshole-type 'leader' or a sheep-like 'follower?' I. Don't. Think. So. Why? Because there ARE people who don't need the validation of their supposed 'superiors' to recognize when they did a good job. They don't need 'direction' from some 'boss,' king, president or supervisor to show them how to do what they do best. Neither do these people need the satisfaction of being worshipped by underlings or from knocking others down a couple of pegs so that they can get ahead. These people derive satisfaction from personal achievement, either through excellence in performance or through the appreciation of similar excellences. They rely upon their own critical thinking skills to determine the best course of action, not a bunch of half-baked edicts from some power-hungry douchebag. They blaze their own trails rather than swim like just another fish in the school or fly like another goose in the flock. These people in fact are natural leaders - not by coercion but by example, and unlike traditional so-called 'leaders,' these people have no desire to run the lives of anyone besides themselves.
These people I would characterize as REAL people, not hollowed out automaton 'followers' or piece-of-shit, hubristic 'leaders.' I call their outlook - where they don't need to lead others and don't need to follow others - a 'Third Way.' A way that I truly believe is the natural state of humanity, one prevalent before the advent of the organized, sociopath gangs known as governments. It will be the natural state of our species again when humans get this very simple idea down pat: The people who WANT to be in charge, THOSE are the people you need to shoot...

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