Thursday, November 30, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Say NO to Strong Leaders
What is Lebanon suffering from today?
The Cult of Personality.
Worshipping ONE man for certain things he has said or done.
Europe did face this problem 50 years ago with Hitler, Mussolini, and others. Democracies can be manipulated by such demagogue leaders. Indeed, Hitler was democratically elected and many Germans worshipped him. They stopped asking questions!
The true solution that Europe found is not to follow one man but a whole group. A group brings diversity of leaders, gurus and opinions like the board of a company. Diversity prevents the stubbornness, the selfishness and insanity of one man to lead the pack of sheep into the abyss. The Lebanese people should say NO to any leader who appears too strong. We need weak leaders but strong groups. At least for a start, until a healthier democracy is established.
Wikipedia has a nice introduction at Cult of personality.
A quote by Karl Marx:
"From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the [1st] International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me.... Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute."
NO to Gods, NO to kings and NO to demagogues.
The Cult of Personality.
Worshipping ONE man for certain things he has said or done.
Europe did face this problem 50 years ago with Hitler, Mussolini, and others. Democracies can be manipulated by such demagogue leaders. Indeed, Hitler was democratically elected and many Germans worshipped him. They stopped asking questions!
The true solution that Europe found is not to follow one man but a whole group. A group brings diversity of leaders, gurus and opinions like the board of a company. Diversity prevents the stubbornness, the selfishness and insanity of one man to lead the pack of sheep into the abyss. The Lebanese people should say NO to any leader who appears too strong. We need weak leaders but strong groups. At least for a start, until a healthier democracy is established.
Wikipedia has a nice introduction at Cult of personality.
A quote by Karl Marx:
"From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the [1st] International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me.... Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute."
NO to Gods, NO to kings and NO to demagogues.
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