The quote lands like a diagnosis: leaders don’t deform a healthy culture; they crystallize the fractures already running through it. In a world trained to prize immediacy, clicks today, dopamine now, depth becomes a disadvantage, and so we reward performers of certainty over practitioners of wisdom.
From the moment belonging is framed as a race, empathy feels like dead weight, and social consciousness offers no visible return on investment in the short window our attention spans allow. But debts ignored don’t disappear; they compound, politically, economically, psychologically, until the bill arrives with interest we never planned to pay.
If leaders are our mirror, the uncomfortable question isn’t “What’s wrong with them?” but “What have we trained ourselves to applaud?”.
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