A Political Triad

[readoldthings]

The following occurred to me this morning. 

There are three sorts of people who should not be allowed political power: Priests, Scientists, and Actors.

Priests-- Because their time is spent interacting with God and the spiritual realm, and they are therefore unable to understand the needs of human beings, who are imperfect. 

Scientists-- Because their work forces them to reduce everything to material processes, and they are therefore unable to understand the complexities and nuances of human social life, or the moral forces which govern it;

Actors-- Because in the work of channeling countless other lives, they become hyper-sensitive and thus unstable and overly subject to passing currents in the Astral Light and whims of the moment.

In other words: Those who must be kept from political power are those whose minds are above the human, those whose minds are below the human, and those whose minds are all too human. 

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Comments

[goatgodschild]

I have seen the combination of Scientist and Priest -- you might think that the two callings would balance each other out, but when they are given political power, it seems to grant them the worst excesses of both.

[methylethyl]

There seem to have been at least a few doctors and ex-military who've made a decent run of it.

Yours seem like good exclusion guidelines. I'd be tempted to add lawyers.