[N]ever engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Socialism, def: a political system where decisions are made by people with advanced degrees in social "science".

Alas, one cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge-we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither