And what they return to you for helping them, is that they carry part of the weight. For example, not everyone is capable of running our Medicine Wheel Gatherings, but you've got a lot of people who can park cars. The important part of the game is learning how to utilize the energy of all these different kinds of people. People who are willing to put more into life, they should get that return. You've got to acknowledge that.
Some people are just content with getting by, and some want more.
The Bear Tribe, like many communities, learned that although you might create political equality, where everyone has equal rights and equal voting power, you can't create total equality. Although everyone is equal in potential, not everyone is at the same level of actually manifesting their full potential. From our own experiences with communities, we've noticed that people are at different levels of ability to take responsibility, and so authority and power should reflect that. You can't have one without the other. Some members of a community seem to naturally feel a greater commitment to making the community work, and are more identified with it than others.