6/28/13
Like millions of other people around the world I have a Twitter account, but I dislike using it because I hate the concept of being a Follower. Everyone on Twitter is a Follower of someone else. I have broken down and followed a few friends who first followed me. The Twitter concept was new then, but I won’t be a follower of someone I don’t know. Facebook is different in the sense of everyone is a friend. You may not know them, but you get to know them and become friends if you aren’t already, but the concept of friendship is more attractive than the concept of a follower. Followers are stalkers or sheep like, or simply odd. It is as if they enjoy the idea of not thinking for themselves, or not having to lead anyone, or lead themselves.
This is the problem in this country. No one is willing to think for themselves or lead themselves, but everyone is willing to follow. Justine Beiber has over 15 million followers on Twitter. Aston Kutcher, the guy who took Charlie Sheehan’s job on the Two and a Half Men sit com has over 10 million followers on Twitter, but oddly enough Beiber and Kutcher follow no one on Twitter. I dislike the idea of following anyone. I dislike following my girlfriend around in a store, or following my dog when I take him for his daily walks. I prefer to lead where ever I go, though I have been told many times by those who try to follow me, that I have an impaired sense of direction.
It’s not because I’m an egotist, though I may be, that I prefer to lead, it is because I get bored quickly, and I hate following anyone who is aimlessly wandering around like they don’t know where they are going. I don’t need to follow someone like that, I can wander just as aimlessly and enjoy it much more. I tolerate following my dog with him on a leash, because he always knows where he is going and he and I have a definitive purpose and direction to our walks. To follow a mindless political leader or manager, or a mindless television anchor trying to direct their narration of the evening news is often too hard for me to tolerate.
Everyone should seriously consider becoming leaders if they are not already. Leaders are people who have confidence in themselves and are willing to make decisions that effect their lives and the lives of others. Fathers and Mothers must be leaders, however so many today refuse to be. They allow their children to be unsupervised or neglect them and provide no direction for them other than setting the poorest of examples. Political and military leaders are mind control subjects, who lead as if they are brainless cyborgs leading their countrymen into insane wars and creating insane laws, that will only destroy all who follow them. Sorry guys but I never follow anyone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, that he never wanted followers. He never wanted disciples. He only wanted men and women to think for themselves and to understand the principles he articulately stated in his famous essay “Self Reliance” and many others, which inspired the pioneer movement during the early 1800s. We must return to this idea before it is too late. Our leaders must lead our people rightly, courageously and justly, creating laws that allow Americans to be free to lead their own lives without the heavy shackles of government restraints on our personal freedoms, such as crushing taxes, crushing laws that favor only the wealthy few and burden the rest of Americans, and allow the theft of our treasure and our continued enslavement to bankers. Social programs today are necessary because without them in place and without changing the economic conditions in America, and relieving Americans from the crushing burdens of taxes and debt we will free fall into an abyss of poverty, revolution and dictatorship.
Either our leaders lead wisely and righteously, or they will soon be led to prisons, once the majority of Americans understand what their leaders are doing to them, and rebel in a second American Revolution.
L.A. Steel
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