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Title: Where Is The Leader?
Author: Anonymous
Date: Summer 2018
Language: en
Topics: against authority, Porto, Portugal, The Local Kids, The Local Kids #1
Source: Translated for The Local Kids, Issue 1
Notes: First appeared as Onde está o líder? on the walls of Porto

Anonymous

Where Is The Leader?

All of us are uncertain, nobody knows for sure how life should be lived.

But, strangely, we assume that there are people who know and, thus, are

capable of leading us.

This longing for an all-knowing person is cultivated; we could enumerate

a long list of people that profit from it and make their profession in

it, of institutions that base their existence on it. Not less

significant are the time-consuming and costly procedures for the

selection of leaders. Democracy is, by far, the most notorious. The

business community has a whole cult of leadership courses and seminars.

The Vatican resorts to white smoke. These procedures contribute to the

belief in the leader. This is necessary, because without faith there is

no leadership. Time after time we hope that someone has the solution for

the problems that emanate from our personal life, for the unstable

existence of this organization we are part of, for the chaos that – by

definition – we’re living in together.

That it is impossible for such a person to exist seems evident. But

we’re not able to fully grasp this. Without overblown self-importance,

nobody would aspire to lead. Without the longing to deliver us from

uncertainties, nobody would put confidence in a leader. Misery and

catastrophe are lots of times the consequence. The excesses are the

norm; leaders who get a surplus of self-confidence and lose touch with

reality, people who put all their faith in the hands of charlatans,

demagogues and tyrants.

In current times, the call for leadership is again shrieking in our

ears. But every leader only builds castles from thin air. Constructions

to the detriment of many and, when the sea washed away all illusions, to

the disenchantment of the believers.

There exists an other possibility; to desert the multitudes of

followers, to discover the paths of acting for your own and to confront

those who want to submit you. To jump into the unknown.

Disdain authority.