3 kinds of followers

The sycophant

is hateful to himself and those around him. Striving and clawing at power he strips down his own identity, and that which was there as a child is hidden or killed as a sacrifice to the demon of covetousness. He agrees with those in power, and changes with the season, following behind and picking up the crumbs they leave him, knowing in his heart that he will always have this station unless by chance his leader dies and he might rise through intimidation.

The coward

never hurts at all, until the night comes down and he lays awake in bed writhing against the right and wrong, but in the day in safety stays and hides under the shadow. Defining righteous justice as that which can protect him. And so he does as he is told to measure his survival, all the while callous to those who suffer beside him. He will clamor and put down the ones around him in his need to ensure that the might of the mighty fights to hold on to the assets he brings.

The fool

does not know better, he wanders where he will. Feeling like he leads his life, though he never tries to live. Every wind of doctrine blows about his mind, confounding and arousing a shallow curiosity brought down as expertise of things he'll never see spoken from the mouths of other fools behind a screen. Each and every moment of his minor perception is carefully crafted to lead him in a direction away from light and life and honor, and he never will know better.