2009/6/14 Indrajit Gupta <[email protected]> > This, regrettably, is something like what I suspected would emerge.
Another way of looking at it is that the leaders that emerge are dependent on the people they are meant to lead and the system of government/management. Given that, two trends are of importance - the first being that most systems are evolving towards incorporating more accountability. The second being that while the average intelligence of the human race has not gone up significantly, the median intelligence has (not able to find a cite for this). And it can be argued that the latter is the reason for the former. So today's leaders are leading smarter people with less freedom to do what you think is right for the greater good. Perhaps only those with the "personality disorder" that Bruce mentioned *can* get elected. This is obviously simplistic, with no real scientific basis - but I think this is hole we have dug ourselves, by getting smarter :). The solution might be to have smaller states and consequently lesser people that leaders have to lead. In that respect, coalition politics that we have now in India might be a good thing, if only the smaller parties would rise above caste/religion etc. and the states are given more power. Kiran
