Kids These Days Think Simon Cowell Is One of the Greatest Leaders of All Time

Bah!  Kids these days!  Back in my day, if you had told someone that it would be possible to make a computer that fits in a bag, he would have laughed in your face!  Why would you want to put your computer in a bag?  I guess you’ll want to carry all of your CD-ROMs around with you from place to place too.  And we didn’t have good-tasting energy drinks.  Only bad-tasting ones!  If you wanted to have energy, you had to drink a bad-tasting drink, because important things in life have a cost and we made sacrifices. Not like kids today.

Kids today also have strange ideas about what it means to be a leader.  Youth of Today, a leadership organization for British kids, recently polled 1,000 teenagers on their picks as the greatest leaders of all time. Martin Luther King, Jr. came out on top, followed by Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, but the list gets a little weird after that…

Also in the top 10 were Moses, Simon Cowell, ”footballer John Terry, actress and Gurkha champion Joanna Lumley and businessman Lord Sugar. Cowell won the same percentage of the vote as Mother Teresa and 16th Century monarch Henry VIII.”

Now I’m not British.  I don’t know who Joanna Lumley is, nor can I speak to exactly how good she is at Gurkha, nor do I have any idea what Gurkha is.  Furthermore, I am not at all certain about Lord Sugar either, though I believe he may be a mustachioed gentleman who appears on boxes of generic-brand children’s cereal.

But I do know that Simon Cowell is truly among the greatest leaders our world has ever seen, and we should all count ourselves lucky to be alive during the glorious Cowell Era.

Source: The Telegraph.