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“There are leaders, and there are followers.” Are we so one-dimensional that we can so easily be sorted into such boxes? Do we lack the depth to be anything but a leader or a follower? Of course not. The problem with much of the leadership today is that many enter the global scene with a certain mentality. I am a leader. I’m expected to be strong. A good leader is a strong leader, and we elect strong leaders. If I push for the goals I stand for, I am a good leader. In this leader mentality, there is little room for followers. Because it makes us… passive? Weak? Submissive? As the Earth continues spinning along, our world is constantly changing. In a time like this, we need to reconsider. We need to rethink how we lead. Because many of the leaders we’ve chosen would rather butt heads than work together. How does that make sense when we all seek the same goals? If you are part of a voting country, voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to accomplish this. On the wor...
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VIII

Any one can’t do everything, but everyone can do anything. The time to physically come together has past, but we will meet again. That time will come again. There will be a day where our faces light up as our best friend or a long-lost sibling sits down on a park bench, next to us. There will be a time where pixels, lighting up a screen, will be replaced by genuine smiles, illuminating our lives once more. There will be a day when restaurants will open, parades will go on, and schools will resume. These times will come again. But for now, I encourage you to take a chance. When this is all over, you and I will be different. The human race will not come out of this the same. That’s guaranteed. But we can guarantee to ourselves how we want to come out of this. You can guarantee how you want to come out of this. Let’s not allow political borders and climates, the fact that I am a man or you are a woman, or the difference in my age and yours divide us any longer. I am a hu...
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VII

If any of you can explain to me why people are capable of good or evil, you get a gold star. I’m kidding about the gold star — I don’t have any. Would a Nobel Peace Prize suffice? A few years ago, I learned about what people thought about good or evil. John Locke presents the tabula rasa — the blank slate — in that humans are born neither bad nor good, but their character is based upon the environment they grow up in. Now, what does that say about our so-called civilized world? Do bad people reflect a similarly maligned society? Rousseau and Hobbes propose the opposite. Rousseau suggests that humans are born inherently good, and Hobbes suggests that humans are naturally bad. While interesting theories, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Whether or not some are inherently good and some are inherently bad — the environment one grows up in will /always/ change their character. We can fix our society, and therefore we can save our people. I have always believed there will...
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