The tyrannosaurus rex once ruled everything that it surveyed. Then the meteor struck, and the ice followed. The king of dinosaurs – too big to shelter in caves or tree trunks, too proud or too afraid to leave the territory it was most familiar with, too stubborn or perhaps even too dumb to adapt – duly became a statistical element of prehistoric records. A cautionary tale.
Actions have consequences, benefits usually come with specific costs and there is no such thing as a free lunch, as the common cliché goes. Somehow those who claim to be our leaders and those mandated with policymaking duties still manage to overlook the most common element of all: the human cost and the consequences to human life arising from executive decisions and public policy.
We need leaders who will inspire us to be our best, to work with one another and to share in the effort of building a better world. What we currently have are politicians who are limited to campaign narratives and political sound bytes.
Popular culture as propagated by various sources including social media, Hollywood and Bollywood can influence the human psyche and lead to misconceptions as to how the biggest problems facing society can be solved, the fundamental role of leadership quality and what that actually entails. Political narratives have the same effect.
