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"power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced-in a word, insane.
by readthenotes1 3y ago
"power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced-in a word, insane."
Years ago I read someone who was paraphrasing this and use it to describe how governments go bad. I did not realize that Herbert originated it (afaik)
- stoneman24 3y agoCan’t remember where I heard it but “people who desire public office should be utterly barred from it”. Very few are able to escape their own prejudices, viewpoints and succeed in the office. Extremely difficult to make a positive difference for everyone. So many recent examples.
- euroderf 3y agoSO, a system like jury selection.
- dankotanko1599 3y agoImagine a political system that was filled with randomly selected people rather than those motivated by power. It could work. Since anyone can do the job of a politician imo... it's not like medicine or engineering that requires hard skills. :laugh:
- euroderf 3y agoYou'd still need a filter. An attention span and an appetite for institutional processes.
- dankotanko1599 3y agoSounds like a job for a machiavellian mentat with aspergers and delusions of grandeur.