Tea baggers? Walmart? Warren Buffett? Get a life. Look no furthur than your mirror for the answer to today’s america. Also look around the world and see the people rising up in defense of their future. What kind of people lets the future of their children be stolen and do nothing? Maybe you can eat your cell phones and flat screens when food prices go off the cliff. Maybe your local sports bar will feed your family. Maybe the mall will give you shelter when you become homeless. Silence and indifference has wiped out america. but you don’t have time to worry about that right now, the holiday season is here. Shop til’ you drop…

Tea baggers? Walmart? Warren Buffett? Get a life. Look no furthur than your mirror for the answer to today’s america. Also look around the world and see the people rising up in defense of their future. What kind of people lets the future of their children be stolen and do nothing? Maybe you can eat your cell phones and flat screens when food prices go off the cliff. Maybe your local sports bar will feed your family. Maybe the mall will give you shelter when you become homeless. Silence and indifference has wiped out america. but you don’t have time to worry about that right now, the holiday season is here. Shop til’ you drop…

work.buy.consume.die.

10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are About To Really Start Feeling The Squeeze

Start taking some personal responsibility for your situation.

(via rainbowhill)

A great sentiment and I agree with everything in it but only to a point—what about the responsibility of our leaders?  We, The People, end up getting blamed for our problems because we don’t speak up and do something, but we elect leaders to represent us. We vote with our dollars to make sure companies we like are successful.  Where are THEY in playing the “Take Responsibility Game” and why do we keep supporting them and letting them get away with not doing their part?

In a world where our leaders in government and business provide us with no positive examples to follow or learn from, how can we be blamed for our conditioned apathy?

It’s our leaders in government and business who have the resources to set a good example. They can afford to be heroes.  But they’re not.  And they blame us.  And we blame ourselves.

I’m sick of being blamed for shit I didn’t do.  I didn’t know my cell phone caused strife in Africa. I didn’t know the car I drove for 10 years would add a ton of pollutants to the atmosphere every year I drove it.  However, when I found out, I did something about it.  I sold my car.  I switched to compact fluorescent bulbs, I made sure to recycle. I don’t own as many computers as I could. I do a host of other things that help reduce my impact on the world around me.

And you know what? None of it’s going to do any good because our leaders in government and business are still dropping the ball.  They still fail to see that they are there for us—not the other way around.  And since they are in control, there’s not much We, The People can do.

A leader does not like clutter. He likes to know where and when things are for quick access and use. His favorite shape is the straight line, not the circle. He groans in meetings that do not move from premises to conclusions but rather go in irrelevant circles. When something must be done he sees a three-step plan for getting it done and lays it out. A leader sees the links between a board decision and its implementation. He sees ways to use time to the full and shapes his schedule to maximize his usefulness. He saves himself large blocks of time for his major productive activities. He uses little pieces of time lest they go to waste. (For example, what do you do while you are brushing your teeth? Could you set a magazine on the towel rack and read an article?) A leader takes time to plan his days and weeks and months and years. Even though it is God who ultimately directs the steps of the leader, he should plan his path. A leader is not a jellyfish that gets tossed around by the waves, nor is he an oyster that is immovable. The leader is the dolphin of the sea and can swim against the stream or with the stream as he plans.

A leader does not like clutter. He likes to know where and when things are for quick access and use. His favorite shape is the straight line, not the circle. He groans in meetings that do not move from premises to conclusions but rather go in irrelevant circles. When something must be done he sees a three-step plan for getting it done and lays it out. A leader sees the links between a board decision and its implementation. He sees ways to use time to the full and shapes his schedule to maximize his usefulness. He saves himself large blocks of time for his major productive activities. He uses little pieces of time lest they go to waste. (For example, what do you do while you are brushing your teeth? Could you set a magazine on the towel rack and read an article?) A leader takes time to plan his days and weeks and months and years. Even though it is God who ultimately directs the steps of the leader, he should plan his path. A leader is not a jellyfish that gets tossed around by the waves, nor is he an oyster that is immovable. The leader is the dolphin of the sea and can swim against the stream or with the stream as he plans.

John Piper (via azspot)

Just so long as the leader follows God’s path. Because, like, a leader that doesn’t follow G—uh, hang on a sec… man, religion is confusing!!

;)

I was all into this quote until the God part—then I felt like I had been Rick-rolled. >_< 

NO: a LEADER LEADS.  HE chooses to lead, NOT Him.  Got it?

A leader does not follow.  That wouldn’t make any sense.

And you can’t say that “A leader is not a jellyfish that gets tossed around by the waves” because God creates the waves, right?

You also can’t say “Even though it is God who ultimately directs the steps of the leader, he should plan his path.”

That’s a little bit like casting God as that shitty boss we’ve all had who makes you do all the work but turns around takes credit for it.

“Let me see your plan!” He eyes your plan and then speaks. “Yes, this is fine, I’ve done a good job with this—now go do it!”

So, we’re supposed to be OK with God being a douchebag?

It’s so much easier to just take personal responsibility for your own actions and be thankful that things worked out the way they did.  Trying to rationalize everything in line with some “God” belief just seems needlessly complicated, and frankly, contradictory. 

Episode 8 of the 666cast featuring a rant against our leaders, both elected and paid for! Yep, in this week’s 666cast, I take to task the folks who are leading us. Whether elected or not, they have a responsibility to do the right thing to keep society and the people who live in it safe and moving forward. However, none of the guys at the top are doing it. Whether it’s Obama or the bankers or the head of BP, we’re getting screwed big time and our society is in trouble because of it. Please subscribe to the feed. What do you think?

Episode 8 of the 666cast featuring a rant against our leaders, both elected and paid for!

Yep, in this week’s 666cast, I take to task the folks who are leading us.  Whether elected or not, they have a responsibility to do the right thing to keep society and the people who live in it safe and moving forward.  However, none of the guys at the top are doing it.  Whether it’s Obama or the bankers or the head of BP, we’re getting screwed big time and our society is in trouble because of it.

Please subscribe to the feed.

What do you think?