Occupiers Are Motivated, But Not By Inspiration
by Michael D. Hume, M.S.
Many of my clients want to be more inspirational as leaders, and like most of us, they have an eye on the interesting event that started as "Occupy Wall Street" and has now spread to include tiny protests that seek to "occupy everything" in America. Is this an example of inspirational leadership, or the spread of something closer to an infectious disease?
To me, the distinction is clear. If an event brings out the best in you, and aligns with a strong set of inspiring personal
Peel an "occupier" and either you will find a person who doesn't really know what he's doing there, or you'll find a Marxist. Ostensibly, these radicals are protesting capitalism (though the free-market system of capitalism and individual liberty is precisely the vehicle that affords these protestors the luxury to protest)... and, essentially, what they view as "greed." Greed is a sin, to be sure... but really, where does the preponderance of "sin" reside in these occupations? With the banks and corporations being protested, or with brandon inge embroidered white home jersey the protestors themselves?
Leave aside the potheads who just showed up for the party, and take away the protestors who are paid to be there by unions and socialist political organizations (and who may not even be aware of the aims of the occupation). Think only about the true believers, the few who really think the inequities in the system are uniquely sinful and "greedy." Then take away the foul behaviors that cut across the broad spectrum of occupiers, from anti-Semitism to public fornication and defecation... focus only on the central idea, that capitalism is greedy and bad, and that only the growth of government can solve the problem. All the other sins and misplaced energies aside, this central idea is enough of a sin in itself to disqualify the occupation's orchestrators from the mantle of inspirational leadership.
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