beyond nehru 3 ! him plus how many gandhis ?

Feudalism still flows deeply through large parts of the world.    I always felt  it was this that was the driving force n the world . Not democracy. Feudalism was, if not  destructive, very definitley,  distorting and  disruptive . The elites, in one form or another, ran societies using the collective crowd/ herd instinct to follow.People preferred to be sheeple. 

Their collective instinct on any issue is to rush to align themselves with the sentiment prevailing in elite power circles. Most denizens in these realms would be hard-pressed to identify any instances in which they embraced causes or people deeply unpopular within those circles. Indeed, they judge their own rightness – they derive vindication – by how often they find themselves on the side of elite institutions and how closely aligned they are with the orthodoxies that prevail within them, rather than by how often they challenge or oppose them.

There is virtually no counter-weight to the human desire to follow and obey authority because the institutions designed to provide that counter-weight – media outlets, academia, courts – do the opposite: they are the most faithful servants of those centers of authority.

The temptation to submit to authority examined by Compliance bolsters an authoritarian culture by transforming its leading institutions into servants of power rather than checks on it. But worse, it conceals the presence of oppression by ensuring that most citizens, choosing to follow, trust and obey authority, do not personally experience oppression and thus do not believe – refuse to believe – that it really exists.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/26/compliance-authority-failure

                                                    Nehru 3 . him  plus 2 . so far.