crowding power

what is a great leader?  strong and absolute?  wise and compassionate?  endlessly generous?  a leader should be a representation of the people.  one that does not say, how will this benefit me, but how can this benefit everyone.  and what if the voice of the people is one of evil?  maybe one would have to go against that for the sake of sustainability and balance.  lead by example.  keep in mind what's best, yet try to understand what's wanted. 

ill-intentions are marketed harder than good ones, because they have to be.  good things don't feel the need to force themselves to be recognized and understood, by definition they should be.  ill-intentions HAVE TO assault their audience for fear of being understood as they truly are.  propaganda is how people are trained to never understand the truth, but what someone else wants them to believe is the truth.  yet it is all part of the same ecosystem.  a leader is no greater than the people, nor the villain less or superior to either of those.  all are the same, struggling to survive.  all are striving to find harmony in their surroundings, whether they want to realize it or not. 

if everyone is unique, how can all be the same?  no two people have exactly the same abilities and desires, yet everyone lives together.  people all eat, sleep, breathe, drink, work, play, love and fear.   care.  if everyone is so similar, how do you reconcile differences?  by crushing those deemed inferior?  by getting as much for yourself as possible to prevent someone else from taking it?  what about loving thy neighbor?  even if that neighbor is a villain or a coward or a hero or an innocent bystander.  differences don't need make others feel inferior.  but that doesn't mean everyone should be the same either.  celebrating differences can be a matter of working together.  more power is generated through peace than war can ever create.  anger, aggression, fear, animosity are all cheap ways to generate something that is perceived to be lacking.  but these can not be maintained over time, they are self-defeating.  you hurt yourself and others through these means and ensure that nobody wins.  cooperation is how everybody can grow together.  a forest is always stronger than a single tree.  does a forest have only one kind of tree?  do the trees impose their will on the animals that live underneath them, or the insects that dwell in the soil or the bark?  a successful ecosystem maintains equilibrium for all the living organisms.  the rabbits don't drive the wolves out of the woods, but they don't allow themselves to be eaten either.  evolution allows them to find their niche.  wolves that are too vicious run out of food and starve themselves.

crowds that follow poor-intentions will not prosper.  what's good for the many will be good for the individual in the long run.  what's good for the few could mean anything.  how can a person even know what's right or wrong, good or bad if they don't understand how things are working together?  everyone is born into the system, given the illusion of choice and asked to carry on their merry way without thinking too much one way or another.  advertisements are projected into the subconscious.  news headlines flash back and forth across one's senses.  you have to fight to view a situation for the many sides that it exists in.  ignorance is broadcast like it were a modern day virtue.  someone has already decided for you and in the name of efficiency, in the name of your best interests, you are asked not to question.  you are asked to remove your individuality as a sacrifice to the greater good, which you may or may not even know what exactly it is.  there might not be anybody that can clearly define for you what this is, but people are following it anyway.  because so many voices are too small by themselves.  because people have become so tiny and insignificant, what's the point.  somebody out there must know what's best for everyone else.  somebody out there must be moving things in the right direction.  how do we know?  efficiency tells us that questioning only leads to trouble.  you are taught from a very early age that some things can't be changed.  You will find from experience that sometimes you don't want to know.  those of you that dare to ask are pummeled into submission.  submission to what?  where does this force come from that sees and understands what is best and how things should be?  flightless birds are easier to herd than ones moving all over the place.  but where is the danger, and who exactly is this dangerous to?

power.  curiosity is the enemy of power.  power doesn't need to be good or bad, it only controls.  power can be both and neither.  power is nameless, faceless, voiceless, opinion-less, and endless.  power exists beyond the grasp of human understanding and doesn't only inhabit organic hosts.  power is attraction and conformity, while simultaneously destroying.  power cannot be fought because it is envied and desired.  power can only be avoided, distributed, re-associated, and diluted.  safety and comfort are by-products.  power can oppose harmony as fervently as chaos.  harmony includes both of those elements, but is in itself neither.  trees cannot grow if they have no leaves or roots, branches or bark.  the soil will not support them if they held power over other organisms to remove them from the environment.  chaos is diluted by power to allow parts to come together, forming vegetation, animals and other forms of life.  power is diluted by chaos, allowing differences to exist, side-by-side.  the concepts work together to enhance the complexity life.  working together there are no absolutes that can exist.  power is a sign of disharmony just as anarchy is, yet harmony can not exist without either of the base elements present to give it meaning.  without the elements you are left with nothing but the pallet.  you are left with only possibilities, no realities.

a leader does not have answers, only suggestions.  a leader is not power, but a bit of help.  a counter-balance to a situation, not a solution.  life must always be allowed to balance itself.  life is not necessarily a series of right and wrong actions, but an attempt to balance.  even expansion and reduction are consequences, attempts to correct what has been thrown off.  peace and war are no more right than wrong if you can not understand them.  are you trying to create peace where there is already peace?  are you trying to create war where there is already war?  if you could educate and pacify the aggressive and violent, would there still be conflict?  war is an invention in the name of power, using unrest and a superficial need for comfort that is achieved through violence.  why not introduce the restless to music or art?  why not fight complacency with self-expression?  what happened to resolving differences through communication and genuinely trying to do what's best for the people that are actually affected by a decision, instead of what's best for someone's wallet?  when was the last time you were afraid of something other than your own government and the turmoil is created elsewhere?  everyone is living on this earth and eventually will have to fit together, sharing the same resources and land, striving to be capable of hope and happiness.