Today's 'born leaders' tend to be smart little robots whose achievements are stamped "Acceptable" by the management. Over-achievers they are, with resumes so awesome one is struck dumb just by reading them. Ass kissers and networkers, likely as not, they cheat their way to the top. These are created leaders, not born leaders.
Born leaders don't have to practice, they don't need to cheat and they seldom conform to ideology and dogma.
The worst thing that could happen to America may not be economic collapse, but being betrayed by traitorous leaders. We have a disappearing government. By the time they are out of office, we will be bankrupt, defenseless and helpless. Is this the Project for a New American Century coming to fruition? Is it the economic front of a multi-pronged attack against the U. S. Constitutional government? It matters not if this is what they wanted, whether they just bungled it or cleverly planned it-- this is what they got, and it's what we get.
Who are these people? Where did they come from and how did they ever get control of the government? They've been sliding in and out of key positions in every administration for forty years.
Many are disciples of Leo Strauss, a German born Jew, Machiavellian political scientist, former National Socialist and then Socialist, finally an ardent Zionist. He was an emigrant to America via London before the holocaust, ended up at Chicago where he spawned a nest of Believers in an elite ruling class that believes it has a moral obligation to deceive and control the people.
All this grows from a Platonic concept of rule by Philosopher Kings and spreads into Nihilism from whence those nasty plans for a Master Race emerged just in time for Adolph's Nazi Party.
After seven Bush years of growing preferential influence, the Neocons have triangulated Washington D.C. from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale. Chicago dreamed up the economics and politics of what is now called Neo Conservatism; Harvard validated the true nature of "manliness" for world leaders; Yale provided the leaders.
It is their plans that drive American foreign policy, and GW Bush is the perfect nitwit to stick out front. Cheney is their top public man and the executive operating officer in the White House. Both Bush and Cheney are too arrogant to feel criticism personally and too obstreperous to alter their plan. They have nearly destroyed the greatest nation in history.
It is letting the Neocons off too easy to assume they consider themselves due more privilege than the rest of humanity because they have been brainwashed for generations that they were genetically superior. That explanation lets them off easy because while they may believe the above, they are also a tribe of sociopathic, congenital liars, so don't give me "brainwashed".
I would rather agree with the writers in OpEdNews who postulate evolutionary "defects" that make these people (our would-be rulers) look exactly like everybody else, but in their minds and souls they are lizards. Lest out of charity we say, "well, then they are not really at fault here, it is the environment that they lived in and the characteristics they inherited, and not their fault." I can't argue with that.
However, you might say the same thing about any species or organism that posed an existential threat and still you would have to eliminate the threat permanently, and according to their own philosophy, nature would have been served.
What's interesting to me is that their fatal genetic defect, selection-wise, unlike countless other traits that failed the natural selection test, is not manifested on the physical level: They seem to have sociopathic symptoms: no conscience, no empathy, no soul or spirit capable of adhering to a higher code. Ironically, that is exactly the reasoning the elite Neoconish "Skull and Boners" of the world have used against everybody else.
GOD SAVE US FROM 'BORN LEADERS'
Today's 'born leaders' tend to be smart little robots whose achievements are stamped "Acceptable" by the management. Over-achievers they are, with resumes so awesome one is struck dumb just by reading them. Ass kissers and networkers, likely as not, they cheat their way to the top. These are created leaders, not born leaders.
Born leaders don't have to practice, they don't need to cheat and they seldom conform to ideology and dogma.
After all is said and done, it may be hereditary. Bush and Bush Jr.? UH, NO. If those two are born leaders, the species is headed for extinction.
I was a Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with a (Baghdad University/Texas University) Fulbright Exchange Program in 1966-67 and a Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq.
Carole Chaney Farrington and I co-authored and published "Baghdad Letters" in 2003, a collection of letters and journals we wrote in 1966-67 while in Iraq.
