All three of you are possibly building a super structure to exhibit many facts ,ideas and philosophies and allow, no not allow...force new thinking.

What certainly will cloud exploration is a belief in patriotism.
To see clearly from a higher perspective I believe we must divest ourselves of obedience to a mind set of 'my side'. Creating a blank slate may be impossible due to our upbringing but could be intellectually important. I know I am biased toward democracy.

Professors,

At the risk of being called a moron and deemed facile without a full command of an expansive bibliography - I would look to Psychology and Math to point a way forward from historic mistakes because a single leader model is just evil. Evil as a single super computer to govern the release of a nuclear holocaust. Simply said divided power and guesses are always more dependable even when guessing the number of beans in a jar by by many individuals. Yes any cave man moron would agree bully dictators-bad, democracy-good, unless they are paid to believe otherwise. Do you believe the US Constitution can defend against a potential elected dictator?

What are your ideas concerning alternative leadership models assuming we have better paths to choose ?