Chris Magazine

Today marked the 36th anniversary of the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. First, go read Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch. It's an outstanding biography on King. Second, tell me why we no longer have leaders in this world? Maybe it's just waxing nostalgic for a time that never was, but it seems like these days we lack people with charisma who take strong ideological stands while displaying rhetorical abilities that not only engage, but inspire. Perhaps it's because our media finds the flaws in anyone who attempts such a venture and then highlights them. Maybe it's because we've become so cynical as a people that we don't have the capacity to believe in anything that might take work or a leap of faith. We'd much rather have it all handed to us on a silver platter. We've become such lemmingesque, parroting society that I wonder if anyone really thinks for themselves anymore.