The Limits of Leadership

"It is natural for us to naïvely expect our leaders—be they corporate executives or their increasingly decorative and superfluous adjuncts in government—to be our betters, having been picked for leadership positions by their ability to lead us through difficult and unfamiliar terrain. We expect them to have the mental agility and flexibility to be able to revise their mental maps as the circumstances dictate. We don't expect them to be stupid, and are surprised to find that indeed they are."--Dmitry Orlov


That is some of what Dmitry Orlov has to say about TPTB in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  He likens the response of BP and our government to the response of the Russian government in the wake of Chernobyl., which is a response of ineptitude many times over.  The whole piece is worth reading; he also wrote one of my favorite books, "Reinventing Collapse", please check that out as well.