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> \> Whoever has seen the most life is likely to be in the best position to lead the society

Experiences (or number of experiences i.e. age) is hardly a rational criterion for leadership. Plenty of old people have had plenty of "experiences" and yet still know nothing about Truth or noumenal reality. So much for the "voice of experience" -- anyone who values experiences in themselves is likely an anti-intellectual relativist and a charlatan. Trump is currently 73 (over your ridiculous "age limit" of 65!) but would any rational, intelligent person seriously think that he is qualified or capable to run anything? He is a privileged plutocrat (a senior member of the Old World Order i.e. financial elite class) who inherited $400 million, and yet still went bankrupt 6 times! Come on, use your head!! Especially if you want to make a claim at being a genius.

>\> Vasubandu is flattering me. Surely you wanted more out of life than condescending ramblings of an unemployed genius.

If you're a "genius", then what does that make me? (A demigod?) (!)

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A rational, intelligent, altruistic 18 year old who was well versed in ontological mathematics and rationalist philosophy (the work of Hegel, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Rousseau et al) will almost definitely be in a much better position to lead and make important decisions than some arrogant 60-70 year old (who generally speaking, would be behind the times, inordinately Conservative and regressive, and possess an incredibly low Will to Power -- they are quite literally about to die! -- and would most likely be obsessed with holding on to faded glories).

What is your sufficient reason to exclude everyone under 65 from voting? You are in effect holding new generations captive to outdated "ideas" (dogmas!). What is your basis for claiming (against all reason, logic and evidence) that it's people under 65 who should be banned from having a voice or holding office, that they are "unable to form coherent thoughts due to their cognitive immaturity". (!) And who does think "coherent thoughts"? Trump? You? Is this satire? Do you think Leibniz, Hegel and Nietzsche "didn't think coherent thoughts" for the vast majority of their life (all of it! in fact). Because they were "too young"?

History has shown that in fact most geniuses, mathematicians and world-historic figures (Nietzsche, Euler, et al) usually do their best work, complete their masterpiece, command the Zeitgeist -- at an incredibly young age (and certainly at a younger age than 65!), before they are corrupted by "experience", ossified by old habits, a mere fossil and hollow shell.

It's not "experience" and age that matters -- it's reason and logic, altruism, intelligence and vitality.

>"Imagine we lived in a world based on rationalism where no one cared a toss about your feelings and experiences! Here’s a simple fact. Many billions of humans have lived and died. If experience is so great, why are we living in hell, and why doesn’t humanity agree on the meaning of life? Plainly, experience does not provide the answer to existence, and does not make this a pleasant world to live in.
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>Humanity has not suffered from any shortage of human experience. It is full to the brim with human experience. What humanity has lacked to a quite incredible degree is the exercise of reason and logic. It is rationalism, not empiricism, that has been horrifically ignored and downgraded.
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>If experience were the answer to existence, we would now have the answer to existence, to everyone’s satisfaction, given how many man-hours of experience there have been, and the myriad of different experiences, exploring everything under the sun. The fact that we don’t have such an answer proves definitively that human experiences are useless, and the very opposite of knowledge. They are mere doxa and pistis." - Joe Dixon, 'The Mandarin Effect'

The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning