I don't have any recommendations for a solution.
The old tv series "Kung Fu" stole a lot of their material from various Taoist texts. Surprisingly, they often did not completely misrepresent the original meaning. With the recent failures (imo) of Western Democracies of late, I'm reminded of one such story. A blind priest is about to be executed along with another prisoner. The priest is nonplussed by his impending doom and this causes the prisoner to ask, "Has your lack of sight made you so weary of this life?" The priest chuckles and replies, "It is not my lack of vision that causes me to grow weary of this life, but the presence of my hearing." Each and every year since 1980 I have moved closer to that position.
It may well be that we cannot find our benevolent dictator because we, on the whole, do not deserve one. As constituted, mankind may be incapable of building a just system of governance. It may be the case that democracy would work, if only the populace on the whole was well-informed and interested in something more than the accumulation of stuff and procreation. I don't see our species evolving past that and every society we've built in the past 2,000 years has ultimately succumbed to the greed of a tiny minority. Yet, we learn nothing. And so it goes.
It may well be that we cannot find our benevolent dictator because we, on the whole, do not deserve one. As constituted, mankind may be incapable of building a just system of governance. It may be the case that democracy would work, if only the populace on the whole was well-informed and interested in something more than the accumulation of stuff and procreation. I don't see our species evolving past that and every society we've built in the past 2,000 years has ultimately succumbed to the greed of a tiny minority. Yet, we learn nothing. And so it goes.
