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True leadership has become scarce; most elites are clueless about the systemic dangers they enable. Rather than navigating or guiding society, they serve as rationalizers for an accelerating system that devours its own foundation. The ambitions of progress, efficiency, and uniformity mask a deeper loss: the disappearance of authentic human qualities—creativity, spontaneity, passion, and the capacity for failure. Society’s obsession with optimization has hollowed out the human spirit.