Inner Source
I gave a lecture about this subject and posted it on Impala Studios' medium.com blog. It is also on YouTube:
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite
Roughly translated as ‘every country has the
government it deserves’ - I am getting used to the idea that this may be
truer than even Joseph de Maistre may have meant.
I don’t just mean that all our politicians are power-hungry narcissists (something I might not deny), but I mean that humans have, throughout the ages, had leaders that have been created by their followers. The leaders that floated up, simply had properties that made them buoyant in the social climate that they were in.
Usually this quote is used to complain about the corrupt nature of democracy, but that is actually not what I mean. I mean it more as an emergent property of the masses, that leaders emerge simply because of certain properties (or perhaps lack thereof like ‘Captain Me’).
Perhaps this clip by ‘CrazyRussianHacker’ can explain what I mean.
I don’t just mean that all our politicians are power-hungry narcissists (something I might not deny), but I mean that humans have, throughout the ages, had leaders that have been created by their followers. The leaders that floated up, simply had properties that made them buoyant in the social climate that they were in.
Usually this quote is used to complain about the corrupt nature of democracy, but that is actually not what I mean. I mean it more as an emergent property of the masses, that leaders emerge simply because of certain properties (or perhaps lack thereof like ‘Captain Me’).
Perhaps this clip by ‘CrazyRussianHacker’ can explain what I mean.
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