Governments might spend more intelligently on education if it came in an economy size that fits everyone... including the people who are running the government.

Truth isn't a scalar quantity. It's a vector quantity. Some truths have more depth than others. Maybe we forget that in our largely Boolean inspired society.

"Nation-states seek smart mobs. Please send collective CV and group photo to {insert address here}. Medical insurance qualification required."

Cohesion is when like particles are attracted to one another. Adhesion is when unlike particles are attracted to each other. Most of present systems are frameworks. The more contents in the system, the more adhesive quality the framework needs - stickiness. And if the structure of the system is more important than the contents of the system, cohesion plays a larger role. So maybe the problem with governments is that they are more cohesive than they should be and less adhesive than they have to be with respect to the society that is allegedly being represented.

How come no one has written, "Chicken Soup for the Smart Mob"? Perhaps marketing research showed they preferred beer and Faux News over Chicken Soup?

Vegetarians sometime ask me to not meat around them. The right answer is whether they mind not eating vegetables around you. The responses are always amusing.

Seriously, who put these people in charge? Collective intelligence? Smart mobs? Democracy?