Control
Last week I said that paranoia becomes the higher power that a leader serves when their needs make the people angry. And that forms a religion called ‘control’.
Put a different way…
Paranoia creates the need for control. Control creates totalitarianism - which runs off fear. So its essentially an exchange of ruler’s fears to people’s fears. The leaders pass their fear onto the people. And when you have a leader who is hanging onto their control by force - you get a system of government that looks like a national or international domestic violence relationship.
Remember our lesson on cults? (link)
Some people consider a domestic violence relationship a form of a cult…
Remember the bullies on the playground…? (link)
They learned they could get what they wanted through violence - not by listening and seeing others needs. Others needs are threats to their own.
Paranoid leaders who put their needs above everyone else’s - turn into bullies. This is true from the playground, up to the global groups.
So, what’s the solution?
Paranoid leaders would have you believe that hiding in their secure palaces and government buildings is the solution. They would also have you believe that they can solve it by increasing control, increasing censorship - which is a form narrative control and propaganda. I wrote a whole book on narrative control titled, ‘Your Story is Not an Agenda.’
Your Story is Not An Agenda (Amazon)
And as a final straw, resorting to force to silence the leaders among the people.
As most of us know - this sounds like a violent revolt and outright war.
The important question is how to stop this?
And that’s by taking action and doing what you can with the talents that you have. If leaders aren’t listening to you, then you need to find new leaders. It won’t just be one person - it will have to be a team. That team will need to get into a position like William Penn, so that they can be heard, they can work together, and they can create a new and better place to live in.
This leadership team will have shared goals, shared values, and enough of an ability to listen and prioritize their team’s main goal to change things for the better. And they will have to have the determination to go into a system that will not be friendly to them, find the players in that system who they can count on and then stand firm as the system crumbles to a point where the good and just can be the foundations.
If done well… power shifts can occur without civil unrest and unlawful activities… but it is a long bumpy curving treacherous climb. But there are points in history where leadership makes all the difference. And that leader - will always have a team behind them.
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