I’ve noticed that whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader, it doesn’t matter who the group are, there will be a leader & everyone will know it.
Now that leader has a choice to be a bully, or someone who tries not to be a leader.
So yes we absolutely need to train our kids what good (inclusive) leadership looks like, so they can either follow those people, or be those people.
That’s a neurological impossibility and we don’t gain anything by pretending otherwise.
whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader
You have a friend who’s always exerting their will over everyone else? This is thankfully not my experience.
Hierarchy has definitely infected our lives and thinking to a sickening extent. People pursuing power for what they see as good is the problem. Trying to influence what the power-hungry see as good is a fools errand because the effect that power has on the brain means “good” will always become “good for me” as you gain power.
The only way to a better world is people rejecting the self destructive desire to stand above. We need stories and social infrastructure that works towards that goal.
I’ve noticed that whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader, it doesn’t matter who the group are, there will be a leader & everyone will know it.
Now that leader has a choice to be a bully, or someone who tries not to be a leader.
So yes we absolutely need to train our kids what good (inclusive) leadership looks like, so they can either follow those people, or be those people.
That’s a neurological impossibility and we don’t gain anything by pretending otherwise.
You have a friend who’s always exerting their will over everyone else? This is thankfully not my experience.
Hierarchy has definitely infected our lives and thinking to a sickening extent. People pursuing power for what they see as good is the problem. Trying to influence what the power-hungry see as good is a fools errand because the effect that power has on the brain means “good” will always become “good for me” as you gain power.
The only way to a better world is people rejecting the self destructive desire to stand above. We need stories and social infrastructure that works towards that goal.