Futures Forum: VOTE!
Futures Forum: DON'T VOTE!
However, do we know what sort of person we'd be voting in - or not?
A lot of research has been done on business leaders:
Does Our System Select for Incompetent Sociopaths? | InvestmentWatch
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work; A Review | KBOO
Is it Good to Be Bad in the Workplace? | World of Psychology
The question is whether these business skills can also be found in the realm of politics:
How common are corporate psychopaths in politics? - On Line Opinion - 17/10/2013
"As it turns out, the majority of sociopaths/psychopaths never kill anyone with their own hands, nor do they end up in prison," she said. "A smart sociopath can avoid prison and find other, less conspicuous ways to satisfy his or her lust for dominating and controlling others, and what better way than through politics and big business?"
David Freeman: Are Politicians Psychopaths?
The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as 'Psychopaths' - James Silver - The Atlantic
Q: What's the difference between a politician and a psychopath? A: None - News - The Independent
On the other hand, Charlie Brooker would suggest that it might be the average voter who's the psychopath:
The leaders’ debate: ‘It’s never worth listening to public opinion before making a decision’
What sort of person can’t decide who to vote for, but can rate how much they like whatever they’re hearing out of five, and wants to sit there tapping a button accordingly?
It’s the mindset of a very specific flavour of psychopath we’re probing here.
The leaders’ debate: option paralysis and the wriggling opinion worm | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
See also:
Futures Forum: Managed democracy: "The deliberate undermining of people's perception of the world, by creating confusion and contradiction ... undermining any opposition to existing power structures ... which leaves us feeling helpless and depressed and to which the only response is: 'Oh dear'."
Futures Forum: On psychopaths, politicians and doing business
Futures Forum: "The political system is so dysfunctional people have to find their own way of dealing with things."
Futures Forum: "Exposing the futuristic fantasies deployed by the fossil-fuel companies"
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The leaders’ debate: option paralysis and the wriggling opinion worm | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian
See also:
Futures Forum: Managed democracy: "The deliberate undermining of people's perception of the world, by creating confusion and contradiction ... undermining any opposition to existing power structures ... which leaves us feeling helpless and depressed and to which the only response is: 'Oh dear'."
Futures Forum: On psychopaths, politicians and doing business
Futures Forum: "The political system is so dysfunctional people have to find their own way of dealing with things."
Futures Forum: "Exposing the futuristic fantasies deployed by the fossil-fuel companies"
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