Our Leadership (or Heroes) Complex...

We grew up being taught to idolize heroes and demonize villains...and to admire great leaders...

What's common among heroes, villains, & leaders?

They are individuals that we choose to perceive as "another breed of creature"...

When time changes, our minds haven't. We choose to use the same concept to understand a brand new world.
When we realize the influence from individual heroes/villains/leaders is just one of the reasons we take collective action (When New Yorkers became kind & nice to strangers on the street after 9/11, was it because of the then Mayor or President?);
when co-creation revolutionizes our era;
when we finally realize the power of these idolized individuals is overrated...

We broaden the definition of "heroes/leaders" to include everybody. We just don't want to admit, sometimes the heroes, the leaders, these "different type of" individuals are not the main reasons we can create a different tomorrow...

It's us, the creative & innovative nobody's, the "average followers", that make their dreams reality. And we don't need to, just because of this, crown ourselves with those historically glorious words like "heroes" or "leaders"...

Time has changed. It's no longer about leading or following. It's about people with the same passion getting together to make changes happen. Nobody leads, nobody follows. Towards the same direction, we push, we hang on to, take care of, watch out for each other...

I don't mean to be arrogant, but if you're waiting for another individual hero or leader to make a real difference; if you still think it's the villains on the press that created the largest mess in our world...I'm sorry, but your view belongs to last century.