NOVPUBChapter 1087: Chapter 655: The Embryonic Form of the Leader’s Power_2
Chapter 1087 -655: The Embryonic Form of the Leader’s Power_2
Because the distance is too great to truly make contact, the leader in the eyes of ordinary people is never the true leader, but rather an imagined figure.
In ancient times, there was a saying where a scholar from the feudal era asked an old farmer to imagine the life of a king. The old farmer said, “The king must work with a golden hoe.”
This seemingly absurd and ridiculous statement actually contains a kernel of truth.
Many people overlook the fact that even the greatest person, holding the greatest power, still needs to eat, drink, and use the bathroom. When they need to use the toilet, they still have to sit awkwardly, and when they get their hair cut, they still have to lower their heads when the hairstylist tells them to.
No matter how high a person’s position, when the countless halos are removed, his nature must still be human. As a human, they too will experience emotions and desires, weary and exhausted in the middle of the night, and yearn for the help and salvation of others.
The imperial leadership class, represented by Dylan Mitchell, is no exception.
Why is this so?
It is because every leader, before becoming a leader, must experience an ignorant youth and a rebellious adolescence.
Under the competitive promotion system of the Empire Republic, no one is born to be a leader.
Even the “chosen children” like Keith Baker and Austin Camp, and Peter Camp, face competition from an enormous base of peers since their birth.
Only after they have perfectly combined their diligence and talent with their abilities can they be promoted to a low-level leadership position.
Subsequently, in their new positions, they face new competitions while continuing to strengthen their capabilities, forging their will and temperament, and gradually tapping into their talents.
Only after they have surpassed their peers and colleagues can they be selected for the next echelon.
Take Peter Camp as an example. He was initially a small fleet commander, and when he was in the Staff Department, he rose early to become a Colonel-level staff officer.
His promotion was quick, but it relied solely on his rapidly improving abilities and his ability to match ever-higher positions, never on his status as Austin Camp’s son.
In the Empire Republic, every leader, high or low, has emerged from the grass-roots level through brutal and intense competition.
Having a low starting point has never been a drawback for a leader; on the contrary, it is an advantage.
It is precisely because these people have once lived and thought like ordinary people that they understand what the majority of ordinary people need when they ascend to higher positions.
Only those who know what it means to be human can lead humanity on the right path.
Of course, higher positions do inevitably “deify” people to some extent.
However, this so-called “deification” does not turn a person into a mythical god with six arms and three heads. Instead, as their abilities and responsibilities increase, their career serves to deeply influence their spirit and character.
For example, when Peter Camp first became the Commander of 200,000 battleships, he and his predecessor completed the handover process, and he stood before the meticulously organized space formation of the 200,000 battleships.
As he surveyed the spectacular scene, past the endless backdrop of stars and beneath the radiant light of the Galactic Center, the silent military formation of 200,000 battleships stretched into the void, forming a vast umbrella-like military array. What welled up in Peter Camp’s heart was not pride or complacency, but instead, the unavoidable thought that, from now on, the lives of 40 million brothers in these battleships were in his hands.
From this point forward, every decision he made would at least be related to the lives and deaths of 40 million people, and during major missions, it would affect the lives and deaths of billions, even trillions of human compatriots.
This is a great honor and an indescribable pressure.
Any person with a little humanity, as long as they realize the enormous expectations and the countless lives resting on their shoulders, would instinctively want to cast personal honor, disgrace, and even their own life and death aside, doing everything for their fellow human beings.
The greatest charm of the Empire Republic system lies in its ability to propel ordinary people with talent, albeit with average spiritual qualities, upward within the civilization system, pushing them to the boundary of their capabilities.
Moreover, this system can ensure that when such people become high-ranking leaders who can easily be deified, they still remember the essence of being human.
Of course, in certain situations, some individuals may become addicted to power, their hearts corrupted, their will no longer resolute, and they may either stubbornly persist in their ways, become weak and timid, or seek personal pleasure.
These people represent “corruption.”
However, the appearance of the Destiny Convention has nipped all “corrupted” tendencies in the bud, making humanity unprecedentedly united, leaving only conflicts between different ideas under the same belief. 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝘤𝑜𝘮
At present, humanity has only one universally recognized belief—that in the face of the threat from the Compound-Eyed Observer, there is no compromise, only resistance.
The ultimate decision-making basis of any action rests on one principle—to better and more effectively resist, and any cost can be sacrificed to achieve this goal.
The belief is unwavering, and the principle is above all else.
This may seem like an ideal situation, but there are pros and cons to everything.
Under the dual influence of the Empire Republic and the Destiny Convention, there can only be one supreme leader who receives the highest degree of recognition and whose every command can be flawlessly executed without any reservation, overshadowing all ideological conflicts. That person is Harrison Clark, who has not yet been born.
