Leaders seek followers who will accept unquestioningly the commands of the leaders. Followers seek leaders who will provide them with a pre-digested formula that will replace the necessity for critical thought. The enemy of both leaders and followers is the independent thinker who embraces the obligation of life to understand the world and universe in which we live. Being neither a leader or a follower the independent thinker recognizes that objective truth exists independent of the individual perceiving it.
By recognizing their responsibility to understand the world and universe in which we live to the best of our ability, the independent thinker reaches a little further than his grasp. This gap is filled by expanding knowledge, and the independent thinker of curious mind should be eager to seize the opportunity to learn.
Being a visionary or a dreamer can be a fine line to tread since leaders always seek stirring images with which to arouse their robotic followers. An independent thinker is able to envision that which could be and ought to be, but operates on a different premise than a leader, since it is truth and reality that must be presented to the inquiring mind to further understanding or to create new products or ideas.
Freely trading value for value with those that desire the new product or idea, the collectivist state apparatus is not conducive to independent thinking free creators and free traders. Always, the power of the state hovers nearby to give permission or licence for a price to those that operate within its jurisdiction. The statist bureaucrat lives by sucking the life blood out of the independent creative thinkers and producers.
