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We tend to choose as leaders those individuals who
stand out from the crowd in one way or another: strength,
bravery, imagination, rhetoric, intelligence, insight,
prophecy, compassion, rapport, listening, analysis,
objectivity, justice, etc. The criteria which we consider
to be important in the selection of our leaders are those
which are central to our culture. Because we seek the
most highly qualified individuals (groups?) to be our
leaders we tend towards exclusive consideration of the
focal qualification for leadership. It is difficult to
articulate a balance of a number of complementary
qualifications as the focal qualification---especially
when the complementary qualifications represent the
poles of the central dichotomies of our culture. We
naturally tend towards the use of a simpler focal
qualification---often one representing just one pole of
one of our central dichotomies: strength---gentleness,
bravery---caution, imagination---conservatism, rhetoric---
listening, intelligence---compassion, insight--analysis,
prophecy---objectivity, rapport---justice, etc.
If we become compulsively concerned about one pole of
a dichotomy in our choice of leaders, we are likely to
tend towards the choice of insane people as our leaders.
Those individuals who demonstrate the highest levels of
specialization in excellence with regards to an exclusive
qualification---will tend to be individuals who lack
personal integrity---their character/personality will be
fragmented and be dominated by the exclusively valued pole
of a dichotomy. Such people will have lost touch with the
complementary pole---so will stand out in the crowd as
being different. If that difference is extreme and highly
valued the individual may be selected as a dichotomous
leader of an opposition group, and tend to further
accentuate the dichotomy which occasioned the leadership
choices.
A technocratic culture tends to highly value
objectivity, analysis, logical understanding,
manipulation, control, etc. Scientists and engineers who
embody such qualifications tend to be people who have lost
touch with non-technical people. The choice of
technically oriented people as our leaders is parallel to
the choice by some primitive tribes, choice of "insane"
people who have lost touch with objective reality to be
their mystical leaders. The difference is in the quality
which is culturally valued.
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