The people who rule

The people who rule over us, who run things, who tell us what we can and cannot do, they're not particularly unique or especially clever. They are not the best qualified, the most reliable or the best value for our money. They do however excel at one thing. It is the thing that brings them wealth and power and it is a thing that to us is virtually useless. It is politics.

Other than that they are distinctly unremarkable. Nothing special. Ordinary. And yet this one thing that they are good at is only useful as a means to their own desired ends. It serves no other master and no other purpose. You may be better than them at organising an industry, keeping the peace or building a car but these merits are meaningless unless you can master politics. The reverse is not true. If you can master politics how good you are at other things is not especially important.

Politics is their game, their sphere, their manufactured domain. If this shell is stripped away it will reveal, with alarming frequency, an individual who is unqualified for the position that they hold.

- Ingram deLacy.