a new theory of leadership

the history of political leadership is by and large idiotic and destructive, an arena of utter narcissism and greed. it's psychopathic clowns, asserting that they're your servants as they transform you into theirs. you'd think we'd get on to another phase. but really, i think the whole thing is a millennia-long sit-com. truly, berlusconi or mugabe or perry or whatever might be horrendous people operating under the absolutely absurd notion that they have more right to tell you what to do than you them. and they operate in systems designed around justifying that. (i predict that this little howler will extinguish our species.) but, if you can avert your gaze from the suffering, the whole thing is hilarious in a charlie-sheen-in-no-exit sort of way.