One thing I consider a pillar of the problems and mismanagement we face now is the ... well ...
psychological inbreeding of the political and economical elites. When I look at top politicians and managers of Germany I do not see a single person I could envision in average worker's clothes or even a jumpsuit.
These people are recruited from within a caste, a caste which recruits its own offspring to succeed them (hence the
psychological inbreeding), whose members never experienced what "real life" is for us ordinary folks. There was a documentary on the education of kids from the upper classes and the overwhelming impression I got was that of an ivory tower. They grow up surrounded by pomp and circumstance, are constantly being told they're going to be decision makers (with all the pressure that brings along) and leave the educational system without ever having seen what life really is about for 99% of the people but with firm conviction that they're the masters of their own fate (or rather - masters of the world). This entitlement ... I mean I thought we'd been long since past the times of god-given rulers.
02-04-2012, 06:44 AM
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