I think to be a good leader, of course calibre is important. I
don’t mean to sound elitist, while being emphatatic to the needs of
ur fellow men is quintessential to one’s exercise of his
responsibilities, it has to be complimented by thorough awareness
of real world situations and the ability to make sound and rational
decisions. I mean, you can get an individual who loves his fellow
man as much as he loves himself, but he is not vested with the
ability to make essential decisions according to the dictums of the
real world, he would just worsen the situation of his fellow men,
and through no fault of his, but his lack of knowledge. Of course,
knowledge can be inculcated, however, not everyone utilizes
knowledge in the same effective measure, even through inculcation.
Even the most idealist of individuals in this forum has to concede
that indeed it is unfair to assume that a system can give each and
everyone an equal opportunity at enquiring knowledge. This is the
unfortunate circumstance of situation, I love to blame it upon
fatalism, but the caprices of fate lies in fate itself and can’t be
debated by pure human logic and rationality. Instead, we must
succumb to circumstance, and will that society must do it’s best to
give everyone an equal opportunity to enquire the gift of
knowledge. Then again, some have that opportunity and grasp it.
They are our scholars we know of – the cream of the crop as they
say. Now, measure emphaty, emphaty is not an idealism, it is, in my
view, a neccessity. The beauty of democracy lies in it’s ability to
utilize the frailities of mankind and bring about through it’s
mechanics – a greater good. Therefore, a functioning democracy will
bring about, through the fear of losing power, a neccessity to
conform to the needs of it’s citizens. Emphaty comes through
democracy’s mechanics, albeit hypocritically. However, think of it
this way, a system functions in itself, and brings to fruitation
what one will concieve to be an idealism.
