Fiction is an excellent place to find role models. Fiction characters are literally models of humans. That’s what writers do. I love Captain Kirk’s leadership

Fiction is an excellent place to find role models. Fiction characters are literally models of humans. That’s what writers do. I love Captain Kirk’s leadership style. The author of this post is interpreting Kirk out of context. Within his context, Kirk was fiercely loyal and protective of his crew. He was also a military commander, not a CEO. He was dealing with life and death. Kirk followed a moral code. Not like modern Christian evangelicals who abandon their code in a lust for domination. Kirk was lawful. His idea of lawfulness did not always mean he followed other people’s rules. He was modeled on a cultural matrix from 1960 that was imagining a multicultural world of the future. Modern life has drifted from that context. Which is okay. But it’s a fit for me.