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Don’t bother taking me to your leader

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:42

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It has become commonplace to suggest that political life is going through some kind of drawn-out crisis of confidence. We have little faith in the ability of leaders to deliver anything, particularly leadership. Not that this situation is new, leaders have always been a mixed bunch, but now we seem to expect more and leadership has not kept pace with those expectations.

Leadership itself seems to be one of those ideals we hold on to without quite accepting it for what it is. It is an ideal, a model aspiration rather than some reality we are likely to see in the messy complexities of real life. It is a somewhat simple ideal of course and simple ideals have the virtue of being democratic simply because they are accessible.

Unfortunately as with so many simple ideals the undoubted virtue of simplicity is outweighed by our inability to fit the ideal into our non-ideal world, the one we have to live in and understand if we are to live successfully. We are unable to find leaders to match the ideal and almost inevitably our confused attempts to find them tend to throw up candidates who may be willing but are always less than ideal.

Indeed they tend to fall so deplorably short of the ideal that we pretend to be shocked at their blatant incapacity. We expand on our fake shock by calling for something to be done without choosing to notice that our leadership ideal is hardly likely to exist in any reality, let alone ours with all its irreconcilable temptations, pitfalls and outright impossibilities.

Maybe leadership was fine and dandy as an ideal for less complex worlds where a few good leaders helped make up for a procession of also-rans mixed in with the inevitable bad apples, bunglers and maniacs. However we cannot start from there but are stuck with the here and now and things are not going well. We think, or rather we must pretend to think it is all the leader’s fault and another leader would make a better fist of things, particularly as those at the head of the queue are constantly assuring us of their ability to do the job. Subtly assuring us of course – as subtly as a poke in the eye but that is politics too.

We live complex lives in complex environments which are not becoming, nor are they likely to become appreciably simpler. Not within any realistic political time frame. Modern leaders are not even close to mastering a fraction of that complexity and even though they have hordes of advisers and bureaucrats to digest the complexity, it is still too complex for a single individual. Even an executive summary is no good if the executive does not even have the background to know what is being summarised and what may be missing from the summary. Dumbing down only takes us so far. The same goes for leaders. They are only human as we know too well, so why stick with an ideal which requires them to be far more than human?

Why stick with the ideal?

That’s easy – leaders have evolved into useful distractions, expendable political facades. Even the EU feels bound to offer up a pretend leader in the comically inadequate person of Jean-Claude Juncker, as if aiming to expunge the old ideal of leadership in favour of the facade. That is probably what we are now stuck with – hence May and Corbyn. Don’t expect anything better seems to be the message.

Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2017/11/dont-bother-taking-me-to-your-leader.html

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