Follow the Leader

In this life you can say there's two kinds of people, leaders and followers. Generally they both have there ups and downs. Leaders can be seen as manipulating and inspiring. Followers can be mindless and devoted. I think there is more problems with a leader/follower society than not.

Most intelligent animals, mammals, have a pack style hierarchy. Here we have the alpha (the pack leader) to the omega (the lowest rank) in a pack, or group. This can be seen in wolves, primates, and elephants. So, some of the most intelligent animals on earth have the same pack system we have. Our system is just on a bigger scale.

Pack hunting and living tactics obviously work for survival and domination over other animals. This is an instinctual tactic though. We didn't invent politics, it comes to us naturally. We are more intelligent and civilized than all other animals. I don't think we can remove our biological need for a pack. What we can do though is change the way we use it.

We have our main pack, we call it a family. Biological or not we have a group of people that make our pack. We have an alpha leader –like a father figure- and the omega that person no one really take orders from, like a baby. As a side note I would like to make it clear that pack hierarchy does not correlate with love. Also the pack leader can change. Now... I would suggest that this system not go any further than that. Our family is our pack.

A pack with no leader will fall apart. If there is no one to make choices then the pack dies. Our society is destroying this system, by training us from birth to be followers. We are conditioned to follow. If every person in a family is mentally a follower, then you could have external leader. This separate leader might not care about or understand you and your family. An external leader is not really part of the pack. Religions, governments, employers, and other establishments exploit your pack mentality. We have multiple pure follower packs that follow an external leader (somebody you might have not have met before). How can you expect a person that doesn't even know you - your face, your name- to make decisions for you? Can you expect him/her to even care about you?

The solution: Every one of us must, at all times, be prepared to be a leader.

Being a follower gives feelings of security. Not to mention avoidance of blame. When you let others have the responsibility then your life becomes easy. The problem is, you lose control. Being a leader you can be proud. You'll have to make challenging decisions but your reward is self worth. You can only be in control of your life if you are a leader.

We could also go as far to have a society with only leaders. As long as there is followers, people will try to take advantage of them. Be a self leader. With effort we can all do this. We can all be responsible for ourselves and still live together. Live for your self. Lead you to were you want to go.