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How can the decent people of the world help each other while the actions of their leadership are self-serving and internationally divisive? Bo Chamberlain


Answer

Brian J. Weller: Well-well, let’s repeat this question. So, how can the decent people of the world help each other while the actions of their leadership are self-serving and internationally divisive? Well, let’s see, I think we can help ourselves by turning our attention back to where it needs to be, which is with each other where we live. Re-empowering true civics. Re-empowering true community. I think we give too much of our power away to government, which means we’re giving it away to people that often don’t deserve it. So, how can we help ourselves? By doing just that; returning to a sense of scale, returning to a sense of community, engaging in dialogues like this and true dialogues. Not arguing about what it is we think we should have, but really getting into the discussion about what’s truly important to us. That’s really – that’s what Dropping Knowledge is. You know, that’s what makes today so amazing. Yeah, it’s really starting this dialogue you know. I think the actions of our leaders are often self-serving and I think we do need to help ourselves. I think we give far too much of ourselves away. I think we’re giving far too much of our attention to so-called leaders. The job of a leader, actually, is only possible – leadership is only possible when the leaders love the people. You can only truly lead, which means people follow you, when you love the people. You can only really save the people – and I think this is a great quote we heard last night – I think it’s from Martin Luther King. “We can only really save the people when we serve the people.” So yeah, we’ve got to stop serving ourselves and serve each other. That’s really the thing and that’s what leadership should really be about, serving the people. We need a major U-turn here, I think. That’s the short answer to this. Maybe we just have to remind our leadership of what their true job is, you know, to serve. That’s what real leadership is about.