This posting is about my views on leadership and its effect on Mankind.

It came to me when I tried to define the old "socialistic" countries and assess their amount of freedom that they were no juster than the "free" world we live in.
They were still basing all of their power in the hand of an "enlightened" elite that ruled by conquering, shattering and dictating over their people.
They were still waging an everlasting war with their population, and I say everlasting since there can never be Peace when there is no Justice, and there can be no Justice as long as there are leaders.

Why? Leaders can never do what is right, they lack the knowledge of what the people want for the simple reason that they are not a part of the people, they are the elite.
They rule over the reality that is ours and only ours to experience, they do not get affected if they choose to illegalize a drug or a certain behaviour, they know they won't because otherwise they would not have illegalized it, it is pure and simple benefit.
Neither would the elite be affected if they chose to unemploy people because of "lack of activity", the elite always survives. They survive through the work of our hands.

The elite needs us, we do not need them.

The politicians need you to vote for them, you do not need them because you are a human being and can make your own decisions.

The boss needs you to make money for him, you do not need him since you do all the work.

The preachermen and clerks needs you to believe in them, you do not need them to see God or the right path since you are human.

The generals needs you, you do not need them since war only kills you and your brethren and not them.

Without us the meaning of being elite would have lost its point, there would be no one to rule.

And the reason above all to why people can't see this is the oldest trick in the book:
Divide and conquer.

If we, the people, can not organize, if we are not supported by eachother and resist the leader's orders then there will be no way that anyone else dares to resist them because then everyone thinks that there is no resistance, that it is everyones will to follow their leader.
And the leaders know this, that is why they try so hard to create social barriers between you and your brethren because if you can not communicate you can not support, if you can not support you can not organize, if you can not organize you can not resist.

Racism, apartheid, imperialism, sexism, homophobia, nationalism, etc. All of these are derived from and aiding in the sustainment of the injustice we live in. If those who are oppressed are divided they can be controlled and oppressed with so much more ease.
Leaders fear socialism and anarchism above all because these movements advoce unity between the oppressed.
History teaches us a great and valuable lesson:

A people that is united can NEVER be defeated.

Take Vietnam as an example, the war lasted for almost twenty years with varying enemies but the people's resistance never ended and that resistance won the war.

The simple reason to this is, as I said earlier, they need us but we do not need them.
When the people is united and aiding or joining the resistance the oppressors can not eradicate the whole people since they will no longer be elite and staying elite is what their war is about.
Instead they focus all their power on scaring the people to obedience, torturing those who resist and statuate example by showing it in open.
This is the reason to why hangings and executions are still open for public display, even if it has lessened to some extent.
Through torture they might stop the resistor in resisting, but pain is not nearly as effective in making people obedient as fear is, this is why news always focus on possibly catastrophic events in your vicinity or perhaps even across the globe as long as it either make people think about other matters or scare people to listen to their leaders.

The war on terrorism is an excellent example, Fox News Network among others are extremely skilled in displaying human suffering to make people angry and scared of the terrorist image.
And they are at the same time extremely skilled in making leaders appear as the obvious saviours from terrorism and other plagues that haunts the people.
Through this toying with contrasts and opposites they make a picture of society in people's minds that make terrorists the bad guys and the leaders the good guys.

And who are the terrorists according to media?
The Islamists, the dark men in the long beards and weird hats.
There was once another guy in history that went about to become a "great" leader using the same tactics, his name was Adolph Hitler and by using this kind of prejudice known today as racism he painted a picture of society being a struggle between Jews and Aryans. He used the contrasts between him and his only adversaries, the Communists, which he accused for setting the parliament on fire, to win the election and forbid all other parties but the Nazi party.
Hitler was said to be a "strong" man that could lead Germany out of poverty and depression and defend it from the Jews and the Communists but I think we all know how that ended.

These kind of happenings are so common that one has to wonder; Are they staged?
Faked by the leaders to strengthen their power?

Hey, they might be but that is not what I set out to investigate or describe so I'll leave those speculations to you, just hope I gave you some food for thought.