>>11623842The best governors are highly intelligent people subjected to certain traumatic conditioning in childhood to diminish the ego and instill a hard requirement that the individual use the external environment to modulate their internal state. Thus, misery and flaw will cause them unyielding torment until it is eliminated. The great danger is of course the development of Machiavellian "ends justify the means" traits, or psychopathy outright.
Basically, you want an individual that is split into pieces and is dissociated from any conception of personal needs and desires, beyond what it can do for others. You also want people who do not have a family.
The only option is to draw by council, or by lot. And bootstrapping this type of organization modern day is simply too difficult. Hence the communist vanguard party and so on. The idea of an honorable or high minded class died when slave morality took over, and there is no economic basis to tie an aristocracy to the fate of its subjects.
