Lesser men*

(*Pls. note that the use of the word ‘men’ in this piece is generic and does not refer necessarily to the male.)

Lesser men – the cowards, the sneaks, the ones who have little self-worth – THEY are the most dangerous. So are the fools and the whiners. These lesser men latch on to the more ambitious ones, the men with energy and drive, and make them what they are. The lesser men are like louse and parasites – they take a ride on the man of power; bloating him and themselves – making him more powerful and on the side, appropriating some of the wonderful prerequisites of power themselves.

Which is why, most men are followers and it’s but a handful who are true leaders. And which is why, many ‘leaders’ are not quite what they seem, because our friends, the ‘lesser men’ prop them up to look like what they are not, simply because they themselves cannot be what they want to be.

Which is once again why, the most irrational and improbable ones have a mass following – historically, even large nations have allowed themselves to be led by the ‘lesser men’ making costly mistakes, mistakes that can never be reversed in history.

Which is why, today, large parts of the world seem to willingly embrace fanaticism, allowing themselves, their women and their families to be led into large-scale ‘prisons of the mind’.

These ‘prisons of the mind’ exist even in democracies, where captive vote banks are ‘led’ by completely unimaginative imaginations. The ‘leader’ who seeks the ‘power of the moment’ for himself to the exclusion of all else, closes the door to the future. Thinking individuals are then rendered oddities to be gazed at in amazement, as the mob excludes and renders him impotent.

History has marked this again and again in varied ways, and continues to.