Leadership 2024

Leadership 2024

It’s currently now the year 2024, and in the US of A we’re gonna vote for President this November. 

Some choice. Each side making the strenuous case for a mountain of evidence that the other is ... THE WORST! 

Hate. Hate. Hate. Black and white. You like him — the red one ... we will cancel you! You like him — the blue one... we'll cancel you!! Third party candidate gets your vote? ... we'll both cancel you!!!

Is that what we want from our leaders? For ourselves. 

Unless you are already so unconsciously soaked in whichever's narrative side of the aisle propaganda what's been drilled into your head, you most probably lack the self awareness to see above the fray. Or even comprehend there might be another way to look at it. Or — amazing — that there's a level of perspective that sees the game for what it is. A game. Just to win you and me to a side and then steer the ship of state in the right direction. And, maybe, cash in a bit to boot. The saintly Obama's on Martha's Vineyard in a just shy of 15 million dollar estate. Like that kind of cashing in.  

In other words, their words are just to get you to do their bidding. Other than that, they couldn't care less. The game is a foot. And, it's longer than Pinocchio's nose.

In which case, let me ask you, Pilgrim ... what you gonna get out of hating the other guy? Remember, even Nancy Pelosi prays for Donald Trump. You can take that to the bank. Nancy, now there's a straight shooter if there ever was one. [Not.] I chalk her spiel up to how you can tell if they're lying ... their lips are moving.

Hating your political opponent is as productive as fucking is for virginity. Hate breeds hate. And, hateful winners. And, hateful losers. Hate, all around. It's a hard heart that carries hate. We're so soaked in the fever of one hatred or another all over this world it's not a wonder there's global warming. On account of it? Too many hot heads? And, look at the news; brinksmanship in Eastern Europe, righteous God ordained depravity in the Middle East. WWIII? What could possibly go wrong?

A visitor from another planet might easily conclude that fear is the lever that rules around here.

This is what our leaders offer us? Vote for me cuz the other guy is the WORST! EVER! It's the end of us if they get into office. It's all over the news. You'd have to be deaf and a dumbass to miss the setup. How to stop being a asshole dumbass ... admit that you are that. Well, better ... admit that I AM THAT. 

I graduated from the University of Detroit High School. Jesuit. Founded in 1877, it has educated young men to be — “Men for Others” — through academic excellence, faith, character formation, and community service for almost 150 years. The education of community leaders is a core value in the curriculum. Another is to live with the view Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam — "For the Greater Glory of God". We were required to write "AMDG" on the tops and bottoms of all our homework pages. Don't you think that is the leadership standard for all of Humanity? Unless, of course, God is for Sunday mornings in your book. And, still, only a quaint sentimental, out of date slogan on the currency.

Leadership. No short supply there. Of posers. And, posturing. Look in the news. Oh, boy! What in the hell are our “leaders” leading us to? By what lights? We've been hearing "nuclear" a bit much lately. Fearful. Intentionally fearful. One false move away from Humanity going belly up?

There's a piece of solid advice in this: Only he who obeys can command.

Here now we have in government politics a bunch of folks vying for our vote. Okay, no problemo. Just, though, let us ask, who or what are they following? Never mind the junk way they go about it. You wanna be a leader ... who do you follow? Your own lights? Some ethos of a set of individuals you associate with, none of them self aware enough to glean the underpinnings of their own unconscious agendas? Or, is it like the Book says ... The Lord is my Shepherd.

Or, like on the greenbacks, is the Lord even a factor in your world anymore? If there's hate, you can bet your sweet ass that you're on the road to perdition. Or, is that just a title to a movie that came and went?

Hate is for dumbass asshole dumbasses. 

Prove me wrong.

From Ann Serling ... 

AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad Rod Serling

"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."  ~Rod Serling

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