This isn't about political ideology. Read my blog long enough and I'll offend you - no matter what your convictions are. This is about the dearth, complete void of leaders. Not perfect men and women, measured as new Messiah's, but men and women of character.
Look, I've lampooned Kennedy's use of his family's "royal" power to get him off from his snafu at Chappaquiddick so long ago, and his use of his influence to save nephews from their just deserves. I've even called him idealistic and a publican (Roman word for one who sways with the wind to keep the masses loyal...in the next election). With that said, the man was one heck of a senator, who did more than almost any president and more than any other senator in the US's young history. He did care for the common people, and he made a difference, often making big powerful people furious. He did know what he believed and he'd work to bring about change - MANY things excellent and good. So, I salute him.
BUT, my real point is the absence of an ethic, ethos, and culture of leadership. Sure, we have celebrity, thanks Big Brother. Sure, we have powerful people who make their future dreams reality, but we're seemingly in a void of leadership. Yes, agree or not with his politic, President Obama is an effective leader in character. Yes, there are few others. BUT folks, let's get honest, from the international and national level, to the local small town level, we are eaten up with a void of character, statesmen and stateswomen! From business leaders (what's his name - may we never say it again - for personally doing more to cause this global meltdown than any other 100 people in the world), to Religious (Don't even get me started!) to politics...
Just tonight, a small town mayor and city councilman north of New Orleans were indicted on bribery charges. It's everywhere, not limited to one group, one party, one ethnicity - we have a huge problem in our culture.
Some would say we've lost our Christian-Judeo ethic. Well, yea, we have. It's no longer normal to have ethics, convictions of virtue or the strength and character to lead from principled "right". Everyone seems to use their office for personal advancement, even when they do good things, it is really about earning favor for the next higher level election, or next business deal.
We need leaders who crusade against this in every sphere - business, politics, medicine, religion, military, society period! In a culture that is built - from the Enlightenment forward - hundreds of years - on the individual, the self, the American motto of "our dream", in a culture built on pursuing MORE, MY dream; in a culture centered on "prosperity", is it any wonder? Is not our present shallow sad reality not the consequence of our making? We sowed the wind and now we weep the whirlwind.
Our culture worships shallow, empty, soul-less celebrity, not people of note. We celebrate mundane morons, not people who have made a difference in society. We worship actors, musicians and athletes...as gods, giving them sway over our worldview, our time, our money, our clothing, our politics. Have you ever listened to these morons speak! OH MY! REALLY!?
I saw that Big Brother is being canceled. FINALLY! Yes, I celebrate this celebration of boring mundane immorality of strangers who are chosen to cause a stir amongst the morons...the 21st century coliseum built to entertain the masses.
Dear Lord, please send us leaders who can change the world!
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