“Good leaders make the mind of the community their mind, and
never let their minds indulge in private prejudices. They make the eyes and
ears of the community their eyes and ears, and never let their eyes and ears be
partial.
Thus, are they ultimately able to realize the will of the community
and comprehend the feelings of the community.
When they make the mind of the community their own mind,
good and bad are to the leaders what good and bad are to the community.
Therefore, the good is not wrongly so, and the bad is unmistakably so.”
Lingyuan
A
follow-up to the author’s prescient bestseller “Sleepers Awake” , first
published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information
technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.
Now its author, the
polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has
happened since — especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital
age — and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and
public institutions.
