WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING LEADERS!
Leadership! That is a word we hear all to often in bdsm land, hell they even have an annual conference about it! Well, I'm going to do my dagger thing and get into your face and say leaders are a damned nuisance and something that we can live a good long life without.
Ok, where did this silly idea come from in the first place? Groups! You see groups need organizers and for some bizarre reason the people who do the organizing often get put on a pedestal. I know because I've found myself on one of those damned things and it is a bloody nuisance. The problem comes with the folks who, from no talent of their own, find themselves so regarded and let it get to their heads. Ok, I'm not just talking about the scene author type bullshit spreaders, or even the event presenters who don't know which end of the flogger to hold, much less how many batteries the cattle prod uses, but those innumerable petty dictators and poobahs who, because they have a group of seven people, all of whom are first cousins, think that they are in a position to dictate to everyone else.
But they have no idea what the hell they are supposed to be dictating about. After all, leaders are supposed to lead and leading implies that something is being led to. So, the question becomes just what the hell do these leaderfolk want? It seems to be nothing more than a bizarre form of personal aggrandizement that seems to go nowhere, like the three stockbrokers on the desert island who got rich trading their hats back and forth. So they use lots of big words and empty phrases but when you ask them what they really want, they have no idea because the truth is that there really is nothing to want.
We are not going to be a political movement. We can't agree among ourselves on enough to be able to accomplish that and what the hell would we do that we can't do by the simple process of blackmailing the public officials we already have? So what is their vision and does it make any sense in the end?
The odds are that it makes about as much sense as they do--none whatsoever.
We don't want their leadership. We don't want to be followers. And if we have any brains we really don't want followers ourselves. We want people who can make up their own minds about their lives. We may present ideas, or attack ideas, but in the end people have to decide for themselves what they want to be and how they want to be it.
Take your leadership and shove it!
Leadership! That is a word we hear all to often in bdsm land, hell they even have an annual conference about it! Well, I'm going to do my dagger thing and get into your face and say leaders are a damned nuisance and something that we can live a good long life without.
Ok, where did this silly idea come from in the first place? Groups! You see groups need organizers and for some bizarre reason the people who do the organizing often get put on a pedestal. I know because I've found myself on one of those damned things and it is a bloody nuisance. The problem comes with the folks who, from no talent of their own, find themselves so regarded and let it get to their heads. Ok, I'm not just talking about the scene author type bullshit spreaders, or even the event presenters who don't know which end of the flogger to hold, much less how many batteries the cattle prod uses, but those innumerable petty dictators and poobahs who, because they have a group of seven people, all of whom are first cousins, think that they are in a position to dictate to everyone else.
But they have no idea what the hell they are supposed to be dictating about. After all, leaders are supposed to lead and leading implies that something is being led to. So, the question becomes just what the hell do these leaderfolk want? It seems to be nothing more than a bizarre form of personal aggrandizement that seems to go nowhere, like the three stockbrokers on the desert island who got rich trading their hats back and forth. So they use lots of big words and empty phrases but when you ask them what they really want, they have no idea because the truth is that there really is nothing to want.
We are not going to be a political movement. We can't agree among ourselves on enough to be able to accomplish that and what the hell would we do that we can't do by the simple process of blackmailing the public officials we already have? So what is their vision and does it make any sense in the end?
The odds are that it makes about as much sense as they do--none whatsoever.
We don't want their leadership. We don't want to be followers. And if we have any brains we really don't want followers ourselves. We want people who can make up their own minds about their lives. We may present ideas, or attack ideas, but in the end people have to decide for themselves what they want to be and how they want to be it.
Take your leadership and shove it!