Meritocracy

I was thinking today of a dystopian situation in which world leaders were chosen through IQ testing, i.e. the citizen with the highest IQ is put in charge. But then I thought, why not? Give meritocracy a chance. The people in our country with the highest IQ’s are generally eccentric and not really in the public eye, apart from the occasional freak show TV documentary masquerading as medical interest. What would make an ideal leader is someone highly intelligent, logical, without personal ambition, a good knowledge of history and a healthy fascination with anthropology. I add the latter because it is vital that such a logical person has a respect for all our precious human eccentricities.