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==On leadership==

==On leadership==

The whole thing is worth reading. [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/our-modern-spectacle] Excerpt:

The whole thing is worth reading. [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/our-modern-spectacle] Excerpt:

:''"But the current era’s crop of ‘leaders’ have dropped all pretexts of charm and magnetism to become de facto cardboard cutouts for corporate interests and [[oligarchic]] influence—mouth pieces and empty voice boxes merely transcribing manifestos on behalf of their paymasters....Today, the hyper-connected financialized globalism of our age has created a vast matrix of manipulation that has normalized the dilution of both [[meritocracy]] and genuine [[political]] and [[democratic]] processes to the point where modern leaders are no longer elected by the dint of their personal [[courage]], magnetism, or accomplishments, but rather selected by corporate special interests on the basis of their servility."''

:''"But the current era’s crop of ‘leaders’ have dropped all pretexts of charm and magnetism to become de facto cardboard cutouts for corporate interests and [[oligarchic]] influence—mouth pieces and empty voice boxes merely transcribing manifestos on behalf of their paymasters....Today, the hyper-connected [[financial]]ized [[globalism]] of our age has created a vast matrix of manipulation that has normalized the dilution of both [[meritocracy]] and genuine [[political]] and [[democratic]] processes to the point where modern leaders are no longer elected by the dint of their personal [[courage]], magnetism, or accomplishments, but rather selected by corporate special interests on the basis of their servility."''