I'm listening to an audiobook he thinks he might have read decades ago.
Dr. Kissinger observed in practice that personalities played a much greater role in shaping history. As an academic he often postulated, as many political scientists do, that this social movement caused that, or that event caused this, when in fact Ms. Meir thought he was a prick or the Russian ambassador knew how to play him. The "people" like to pretend that their democracy is a solution, that they're actually steering.
As I've repeatedly stated, there might be over a hundred, perhaps a few hundred people in America with more power than the Oval Office holder. They are people who are second or third away from the top of the food chain. Some are Governors. A vice president at Apple has, in many respects, much more power and leeway than Mr. Bezos. Right now at Lenovo, one of those people might be doing something well and correctly that none of us will learn about for decades, if then.
I was in Contracts class in law school. Our professor was a grand fan of Game/Chaos/whatever ya wanna call it Theory. During a visit to the food truck I was speaking with a classmate who'd throughly studied the subject in undergrad. Xhe told me that 'Sure, all this theory is interesting, however one of the judges who's verdict had been widely cited by the theoriticians eventually called bulldung.' Yes, he had issued that verdict. Nonetheless, the judge found the way he did because he'd been bribed.
Back to the drawing board.
