Not Godot for leader no, we don't have that much time .... french, US national, russian, brit, chinese need not apply, for rather obvious reasons ..... maybe a finn, a kiwi, costarriqueño, liechtensteiner ... Octavio Paz would be a great choice, fine mind with an appropriate name and all, but being dead may disqualify him, though the state could well prove an advantage in the job .... there was a young danish lady i met in Dunedin one time, long flame-red hair, the sort of attitude tempered with humour you'd follow anywhere, green eyes that could take out a General Bumpkin at a thousand metres ..... but she didn't give me her phone number - do you know any slovenes?
It's all we lack, leadership with the ability to project vision ... it's pretty clear to the Rest of Us that such overwhelming power in so few hands will be far and away our greatest problem in this century, there remains only the question of how do we protect ourselves against it ... 'only', heh heh .... well, no rational person ever claimed politics was easy .... but we have natural allies all over, even within the five holders of Security Council Veto Power - #reply-19678089 ... very well said, tekboy [if a little US-centric-g-]
Meantime while we're waiting for our Gandhi/Jeanne d'Arc/Thoreau to appear, each of us as individual persons or individual nations can elect in as many ways as possible to bypass Washington, to deal directly with each other in every respect - trade, diplomatic contact, currency, tourism, military cooperation, everything .... the Just Ignore Them And Maybe They'll Go Away approach |
