Our last chance…NOT!
Posted by kurtdudley on February 25, 2008
Kurt Dudley
ENGL 121
February 23, 2008
Leaders have been around since the beginning of civilization. When you think back to all of the great cultures, from the Romans to the Mayans, you will find one thing in common with all of them, they all have a central government, and a central leader. Granted every culture has its own type of leader, they all have one person that they look up to and follow. There are many different kinds of leaders; it could be a President, an Emperor, a King, or even just a person who everyone respects but for some reason, people have the urge to follow someone who they believe to be wiser then themselves. Why do you think we do this? Do we do it because we are afraid to do things on our own? Because we want someone to go to with our problems? I think that all of these reasons are potential truths, because as human beings we always like to have someone we can rely on. The only question is, as a human race, how do we tend to choose our leaders?
As a human race, I feel that we tend to choose our leaders by how they act. Most of the time when we look at a leader in any culture, we see that they are a very successful person who really has their life together. They tend to be people who are good a speaking, and who make it very natural to have conversations. Other times however, we see that leaders are very powerful people who use their ability to intimidate and get ahead in the world. They are people who are good at interacting with others but they have immoral minds. Fear can be a very successful tool when used in a person’s own favor. It has the power to bend people in certain ways, and it has the power to change their natural inhibitions. But as a whole, cultures seem to choose leaders who will be good for their cause. You see this in today’s politics, people who vote issues are doing nothing more than trying to improve their own beliefs. Which is why I think that people elect leaders simply because they know that they themselves cannot do things on their own, and having a person to back them up is never a bad Idea.
When we choose our leaders, people are thinking of their beliefs. Whether it is religion, or politics, people will always vote by the way they think things should be. That’s why when we look for good candidates we look for someone who we see ourselves in. At the core, every time that you vote, you are trying to put a person in office who will do the things that you think are right, which is why we elect leaders, to do the things that we cannot do as followers.
