leaders: someone who can take the information that is presented to them and decide what is write and wrong and lead those who agree and change the minds of those who don't know what they believe.
followers: those who, for one reason or another, can't sort through information and come to conclusions on their own. they need leaders to sum things up for them and tell them how to feel and think about things they weren't able to come to a conclusion on. their belief system usually accords with that of the leaders who remind them of themselves or come from their community.
loners: much like leaders in their ability to come to their own conclusions, but are only capable of leading themselves, not others. usually don't care about others enough to lead them. you have to love to the people to lead them...sometimes.
I got to thinking about this when I started talking to a friend of mine at work about Barack Obama. He brought up how the Jeremiah Wright scandel changed his opinion about Obama's character and wondered how influential Wright was on Obama.
First of all, Jeremiah Wright isn't a force of pure evil. There is probably a lot of good qualities in the man to admire and live up to. I'm not familiar with all of this controversial beliefs, but he is an extremist which is always going to turn a lot of people off. But, I'm sure most of his beliefs fall in line with goodness and are meant to help empower his own people, which isn't a bad thing.
Second, Obama is a leader. He's not the people you remember from your hometown and religious experiences who just absorb what is presented to him and becomes a clone of his teachers.
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