“Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us along the journey.” – Simon Sinek

Tim Bryant – When we think of world leaders, what often comes to mind? According to Forbes, the top ten qualities of good leaders are honesty, delegation, communication, confidence, commitment, a positive attitude, creativity, intuition, inspiration, and approachability. That is quite a list! And it’s hard to knock any of the aforementioned qualities, as they are all honorable attributes to any genuine leader.

However, when we think of our leaders today, would we use any of those characteristics to describe them? While those traits might apply to some leaders, most people would use much harsher words to describe our so-called “leaders” — especially those of us who have started to wake up.

Looking at the chaotic nature of today’s society and its obvious inequalities, it seems our world leaders are more clearly defined by terms such as greedy, power hungry, criminal, psychopathic, manipulative, and are overall, parasitic in nature. Obviously this is a blanket statement that doesn’t apply to every single person, as there as many honorable community leaders out there — but when we think of our leaders as a whole, in areas such as government, banking, entertainment, or big business, it’s hard not to come to such negative conclusions.

The destructive actions of these poor leaders can be seen in many different ways, such as the flawed design of money, the bias of media, the corruption of government, the looting of big business, the obfuscation of science, the obstruction of history, and the list could go on and on. And these things don’t happen by accident either; there are always people behind these actions and structural designs.

It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the leaders of today are not out to lead us to a land of freedom and prosperity, but instead are out to further dominate and control life on this planet. So what can we do? Continue reading →