With people showing a great deal of displeasure with the choices for elected office here in the city, I wonder who our future citiy leaders will be? Where will they come from and what skills should they have?

Do you think that our leadership should come from the business world or the academic world?

Business. Acedemics are out of touch with reality. They don't get it.

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"Individualism is absent when other peoples' standards, not reality and reason, are ones primary guide."

neither. it will be amoral machiavellians. (hmm...donald Rumsfeld comes to mind.)

Rumsfeld types on the local level?

Where would you prefer them to come from EL?

There was an interesting section in the Sunday Inquirer about why there seem to be so few good visionaries here and what to do about it.

I often complain about the Inquirer, but I have to give them credit for starting this type of debate.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/6763852.htm

I think that this is the article that you referred to. It is a very good article.
So where do wee find the crazy and creative people that we need?

our future looks grim...
from government coverups to government poisining vaccines(high levels of mercury) forcing parents to give their kids medication like ridalin, I start to get real upset talking about the future... no social security..
WORRIED ABOUT IRAQ WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT OURSELVES!!

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Well, our future leaders are coming through places like Penn, so I guess I'm seeing them every day in my capacity as an academic advisor. They're bright, energetic, motivated young people, no doubt about it.

Some are very goals-oriented, credentials-obsessed, and not terribly interested in long-term intellectual development. Others are deeply intellectual. It just varies. What worries me is that there is a culture they see in the world outside that filters down to the collegiate level - a culture in which everything is negotiable, the only standard is what benefits the individual, and a cynical manipulation of the standing order is acceptable if you have the stature or audacity to pull it off. Not so much has changed since Enron. I don't blame these kids - they didn't create this culture. But they adapt themselves to it, so there's little reason to expect much better from the next generation.

On the other hand, I'm just returning to the Blog from a very successful Young Involved Philadelphia Open House last night, in which 50-odd motivated, energetic young Philadelphians came out, talked to us, and signed up for any number of reasonably idealistic projects we have ongoing over the next year. They came out, presumably, at least partially because they want to do their part to make Philadelphia a better place. Maybe our leaders will come from amongst these folks too.

BE STRAIGHT AND DONT TRY TO INDULGE US WITH YOUR BIG WORDS..

WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE KIDS IN PENN WERE TALKING ABOUT THE KIDS IN THE PEN.. STATE PEN.. THAT IS THE FUTURE.. THE DRAFT IS THEIR FUTURE...

YES THE DRAFT IS COMING WE CANT SUPPLY THE MIDDLE EAST NEEDS..
THATS WHY WERE TAKING TROOPS AWAY FROM OTHER PLACES:S KOREA GERMANY ETC.

WELCOME TO POLICE STATE..
WHERE SWAT AND FOOTBALL IS KOOL BUT NOT POLITICS..
NOT OUR LIVELIHOOD

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