{"id":845,"date":"2019-09-23T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=845"},"modified":"2019-09-23T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T22:04:36","slug":"leaders-followers-and-the-cave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/leaders-followers-and-the-cave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders, Followers, and the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously we had examined the leader along with their personality traits and varying ways of influencing the people that they lead. In the video and readings for today, we examined more of the follower and the relationship between them and their leaders. We begin to see the ways that the followers influence their leaders just as the leaders influence their followers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We see in the allegory of the cave video that reality in only a perception, a point of view, merely the way we look at society. The people in the cave know nothing but the shadows and the noise they here, with they perceive are coming from these shadows on the wall. When they are finally released, their eyes are hurt by the fire and everything that they think they know is completely undermined. Would it be better for them to live with the shadows being their only reality and be content or be hurt with the realization of reality? This is the question we must ask which brings us back to the relationship between the leader and the follower. It is an interesting concept to me where the leader chooses to share and have a relationship with their followers and where they choose to lead and keep things to themselves in order to attempt to better society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously we had examined the leader along with their personality traits and varying ways of influencing the people that they lead. In the video and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/23\/leaders-followers-and-the-cave-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaders, Followers, and the Cave<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}