Do you think that we should look to political leaders to bring about world peace, end hunger, stop the spread of infectious diseases, control the weather, and beautify the earth?
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No. I think we have to look to ourselves. Politicians are too often the problem, not the solution. People power imho is the answer.
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I think we should look to leaders to make manifest the will of the people. If that's what we want, then we need to show it by affecting change first ourselves and then making sure leaders help facilitate and globalize our efforts.
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If you want something done right,do it yourself:)
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Certainly we need to look to leaders to bring about large scale change. Leaders, however, come in many flavors and we generally choose who they are going to be. (because, we follow them) Leaders by definition are people we look to, and they will always exist. So, first, I think we need to look to ourselves to bring about positive change and self-understanding, then we may find that the leaders that we raise up among us are chosen with greater wisdom.
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More than any leaders, the problem is connected with long duration time cycles. Ancient Europeans wrote about Ages of Man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man There are also many other references to various types of world ages or Ages of Man in Hopi (worlds), Mayan (suns) and other cultures of antiquity. Giorgio de Santillana, the former professsor of the history of science, mentions approximately thirty ancient cultures that believed in the concept of a series of ages and the rise and fall of history, with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. More details of these Ages are available in the Yuga concept of the Hindus. The present age is known as Kali Yuga (age of darkness). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Yuga http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/iml/iml11.htm http://www.crystallotus.com/Lemuria/04bbTheAges.htm http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/AgesOfWorld.html Some Hindu astrologers predicted that we will see the beginnings of the Golden Age from 2020.
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