the problem with democracy in our time is, like you say, that people are stupid, egoistic, manipulated easily and making bad judgements (even me)
say taking a number of newborn babies making them candidates. like princes, but educated to rule the state, being rational. The best candidate would be the ruler when he'd grow up. pretty science fiction I guess, but if he/she is very intelligent and non-egoistic, he would make good decisions for the state.
or another type of leadership would be a math formula. every decision made by this formula, taking welfare of the people as a priority, and the future of the economics etc. that would be some kind of computer.
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