By definition, the traditional storytellers were not leaders, much less messiahs. |
We do not need magic or messiahs to help us live decently, to provide an ethical code. |
I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse. |
As is the way with most messiahs, only the poor, the insane and the very young recognize his divinity. |
A few self-prophesied messiahs of the Kannada film industry are dictating terms to cinegoers. |
But dreams, after all, are dreams, and as we are busy producing double-faced politicians, there are no messiahs around to translate dreams into realities. |