The more power each person gets the less intelligence required .. here's my theory

https://johnmelodyme.wordpress.com/...

I think after my government read this , they either chase me with their chappa or snipe a paratha straight in my face ,

Interesting point of view.
I believe the more power a person posesses the easier it is for them to acquire more power causing a sort of exponential cycle in which the person in question has fallen to such a massive addiction to power that they won't stop.

The more power, the less effort required to gain more as you can just let others do your business.

Can I have that parantha, if you are not eating it?

@Ranchonyx whenever exponential growth comes into the play (unless for the bamboo tree based approach), things always map to the curve of normalisation.

@Cyanide sure... hahaha

@Floydimus did you know each segment of a bamboo tree is contained from the very beginning *in* the bamboo seed?

The bamboo seed contains an entire tiny, preformed, bamboo tree.

@Wisecrack for real?

@Floydimus really really.

@Wisecrack You missing out.

Hmm. On the highest levels, it looks like there is some extreme filtering for commitment, manipulation skills and luck.

The first is necessary for almost every career of some sort - including every intellectual one.

The second is a social skill. Having it does not requires one to be anti-intellectual. You obviously can have it while actually being a physicist (look up Angela Merkel).

And while everyone can get lucky... Which clan you are born in seems to be most important for getting into positions of power.

My conclusion: Most politicians are as stupid as the average middle class citizen. So they in general are not the smartest of the smart. But they aren't braindead either.

But as a politician, you can earn a lot of money by being corrupt.
And the most effective legal defense strategy in a constitutional democracy is to play stupid before investigations start as their legal systems have to assume stupidity instead of malice in a lot of cases when intent can't be proven.