--- On Sat, 13/6/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] How do we survive our leaders?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, 13 June, 2009, 10:03 AM
> On Friday 12 Jun 2009 9:09:38 am
> Indrajit Gupta wrote:
> > Would you be very angry if I asked you to re-think and
> tell us - me - your
> > analysis of the failure of the top leadership? For the
> sake of good order,
> > perhaps we need to restrict it to our own leadership.
> >
> > You started by saying that leadership that we get is
> by no means perfect,
> > and that we may not hope for more, but why is that so?
> When even the man in
> > the street displays a degree of integrity and good
> sense, why do our chosen
> > leaders behave like such scoundrels?
>
> IG - I am still mulling over a reply. Give me a while and i
> will state my
> views on this because I am not yet sure about what I make
> of the question
> itself, let alone the answer.
>
>
> shiv
Would appreciate that greatly, Shiv.
It strikes me that this extends far deeper than just a national leadership. Why
is even our leadership at state level so poor? A cross-section of people from
the street, or from homes, or from any statistically valid random sample will
display a greater degree of moral rectitude than our leadership.
This is in no way specific to India or to Bangalore. Why is it seemingly
generally true that political leadership anywhere is demonstratably of a lower
moral standard than the population it purports to serve?
A corollary: are the Scandinavians an exception? The other Europeans seemingly
are not; look at Berlusconi, just to be anecdotal.
Where I am coming from is that after years of scepticism, in middle age, I am
beginning to wonder if the anarchists didn't have something after all. Hope
that helps explain my angst to some extent.
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