From: Stephen de Vries (PHEN@wwg3.uovs.ac.za)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 05:28:46 MST
On Thu, 07 Nov 1996 Michael Lorrey wrote:
> > "Who shall lead?"
> > "Why, he who is most fit to lead."
> >
> > MMB, at but not for OCC
>
> Show a demonstration of fitness and I'll think about it.
>
> A demonstrably large percentage of the supposed intellectual elite
> around today remind me more of the sniveling latinos of the late Roman
> empire that let the barbarians in the gates, than the early ones whos
> mother's told them, "Come home with your shield or on it."
>
> As for leading today's whining masses? Excuse me I've got better things
> to do.
> TO me, leading is by action and example, not by political maneuvering,
> rhetorical warfare, and pandering to the most common denominators.
>Exactly. Leadership does not have to be anything about politics, to
me leadership is the application of power. By using resources to
start a new business enterprise or spread a new meme, you are being a
leader.
> I
> would show much more leadership by getting the hell off this planet just
> to prove that all the crap that people claim is a bunch of nonsense.
Different craps for different chaps ;-)
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"I" is the action between the present and the future.
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