According to you, is the world a mess because there aren't smart people in power?

Watch Idiocracy. Yes and no . Also the smart people go into theocracy and stock market to become wealthy by exploiting the masses. Would you like me in charge? We need more honorable people in charge.

No, there are plenty of smart people in power.

No. The world is a mess because there are more people who don’t care than people who do.

Stupid people in power are a problem, but generally what’s happening is not just simply that stupid people happen to have wandered into public office!

Stupid people in powerful positions tend to have been chosen for their control-ability by organizations of smarter more powerful corrupt people who want power without being in a public position themselves.

Did George W. Bush personally have ideas and agendas he wanted to lead the US with? ABSOLUTELY NOT! He, like most/all presidents we’ve had at least in recent decades, have been largely figureheads for large powerful power blocks that aren’t elected and don’t have a formal public organizational hierarchy like a government or even a corporation. Why did H.W. Bush and G.W. Bush lead us to invade Iraq? Mainly because the international oil industry wanted to be able to predict oil prices, and Saddam Hussein was having unpredictable influences on the fluctuation of oil prices.

The stupidity of the people in office is just a frequent side-effect of the domination of our politics by wealthy powerful groups that want people in office who can be predicted and controlled. And that, according to me, is part of why the world is a mess.

The other part has to do with all the stuck dysfunctional ideas and repeated conversations and conceptions that pervade our cultures at all levels. If those corrupt powerful groups I mentioned would shift their thinking so they are about having the world they control be a pleasant and healthy and sustainable place, their power-mongering might not be a problem!

The world mis a mess because it’s always been a mess.

Partly. It doesn’t help that the smartest people don’t desire to be in power…

According to you, is the world a mess because there aren’t smart people in power?

No, it is because there are charlatans in power, with smart people as their tools.

How much of a mess our world is a complex matter. It is not defined entirely by the amount of smart of people ruling the world.

^Well. It clearly has some bearing on what’s happening. Whose in charge…