Canada is
going through another round of scandals with their politicians from our
senators to our mayors. We are not
unique in having our leaders be less than honest or more greedy than the
average human. Humanity has always had
leaders who are greedy, dishonest, violent and without conscience or care for
the people they are supposed to lead.
This is apparently a given throughout history.
The question I ask today is “why is
that”? Are human beings psychologically
built to be led in the same way as other animals? If one really stops to consider how society
evolved one is led to believe that indeed this is so. Humans are not solitary beings by
nature. They survive in groups which
have become “society” or “civilization”.
But one has to wonder why it invariable becomes the greedy and least
kind person that ends up becoming the leader of the pack? After 6,000 or 10,000 years of “civilization”
have humans failed to evolve any further than a cow? All evidence seems to point to the fact that
we are no better than a cow.
It’s rather humiliating to be a member of
an un-evolved civilization. Let’s not
split hairs by pointing out that some countries appear to be more balanced than
others; the fact remains that human beings are more inclined to follow a leader
however poor that leader may be than to break away or protest the leader and
insist on something better. Are we still
so financially or emotionally suppressed that we cannot bring ourselves to make
an effort for change – and keep the feet on the flames permanently? Think about the high school books “Animal
Farm” or “Lord of the Flies” . . . is this really the way it is, forever?
I hope not.
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