Reflecting on part of an Octavia E. Butler poem I read today re #leaders:
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/octavia-butler-parable-leaders/
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2024-02-15 17:48:19
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