@thomaschattwill But isn't this what post-modernism intended in order to bring on the revolution?

@thomaschattwill Or, is the leadership crisis a symptom of something else?

@thomaschattwill I agree. But what's amazing is knowing that a lot of society keeps on functioning quite well, right? In spite of these crises.

@thomaschattwill It's much easier to invent problems and tweet about them in a self-congratulator way than actually face real world issues.

@thomaschattwill Feels that way. But it has before. Song from 1967, and works just as well right now in 2021. "There's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong."

@thomaschattwill Even on the personal level. Widespread paucity of leadership. Everyone acts so timidly. Individuals are terrified of risk, of speaking out, of passionate embrace of any unpopular idea.

@thomaschattwill Probably the exact result those doing the long march had bet on!

@thomaschattwill @benshapiro Too many professional talkers are on the sidelines degrading our trust for good leaders.

@thomaschattwill Stems from greed, a rejection of noblesse oblige and any sense of social or community responsibility.

@thomaschattwill It's because public figures are rarely held accountable for anything serious. Media will crucify for slips in proper speech by today's standards, but rarely go deep in an honest way on serious issues in politicians' morals and judgement. And we the public don't care enough.

@thomaschattwill Similar thoughts recently.

@thomaschattwill I can't remember who said this, but I heard it mentioned that with the rise of social media, we shifted from "leaders" to "influencers", & that change in dynamics has been costly.

@thomaschattwill This seems true, but which came first— the failure of leadership or the breakdown of trust in institutions? I guess I’d say the former caused the latter, in general.

@thomaschattwill @benshapiro The absence of journalistic integrity in our national media is quite possibly the largest issue here. Sounds cliché…but very very true!

@thomaschattwill We suffer from this crisis of leadership while causing it. We voted for these politicians. We fund our cultural leaders. We support only the intellectuals who agree with us. Our morality is different from our neighbor's, and we only blame them for it. We are the crisis.

@thomaschattwill @CathyYoung63 Too bad we’ve disparaged enlightenment and classical liberalism, and tolerated so much utopian neomarxist, postmodern wandering.

@thomaschattwill I think it may be a sort of overactive democracy where everyone, even leaders, are so under a microscope of millions of their arrogant fellow humans it may be almost impossible to lead anyone who is not already in your own tribe.

@thomaschattwill @PNWSelina One issue is attractive potential leaders are choosing punditry over responsibility.