Selected Articles
Man the Choicemaker
Nature vs. Government
A Fairy Tale of Glibness of Pap
"Be Thou an Honest Man?"
"Champion Y'shua Jesus"
Halloween 365 Nights-a-Year
Humble? On Purpose?
"In League with the Stones..."
Law or Principle
"Paid In Full."
Hands of a Teacher
"The Flyer said..."
The Force in Motion
The Jew
The Value of the Individual
"Why un-Believers Can't THINK"
"The Mathematics of Life"
Butter and Honey
Declaration of Independance - Intro
Humanism
Isaac Newton
Letter to Sam Lamb
Tribute to an Uncommon Educator
Classic Mediocrity
U.S. Marines
A New Life
Under God
"Big Jim" Causey
Leadership
Leadership
A reader has called for "need of Leadership." While he suggests deeds aimed at solving California's political mess he offers no guidelines for the very thing he cites: Needed Leadership.
This absence is obvious at every level of daily human experience from international to local. While true leadership will manifest some virtue from courage to honesty to knowledge, etc., all leaders will have their human shortcomings. They will, however, by historic definition exenplify two particular qualities which, if lacking, will delete that individual from the ranks of true leadership: Be Teachable and demonstrate Vision.
Because each human has a universe-sized Ignorance, compared to their limited Knowledge, we must all be on-going teachable -- prepared to learn from principle, history, and experience. If humans do not recognize and admit to their own ignorances they cannot learn.
The first prime virtue makes possible the second, Vision. The ability to see and anticipate the consequences of proposed choices into the future: Change and discard some and choose other options. Allegiance to Principle equips leaders and all people with this necessary standard. Without loyalty to principle there can be no vision. Lacking vision, they will blunder, fail, and fall.
At every level of leadership from church, education, civics, business, arts, science, and the press, we lack leaders who apply these two basic principles to themselves in their responsible position. The foregoing describes why We, The People can recognize the imposters, compromisers, and actors in our midst.
Question: Will they learn? Answer: Pray
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