That video seems to be gone Volu.

The whole hierarchy issue is a funny business, but i think the more talk there is about democracy and freedom the less there actually is.

Modern communications technology and especially IT systems have been used to concentrate power in the hands of a very few at the top of organisations. While they can and have on occasion have been used for the opposite purpose (to place authority, information and responsibility in the hands of the wider organisation/population, and to enable input) they have mostly been used in government and business to impose control, eliminate wider input, and enable hijacking by a few.

This was arguably was one of the major causes of the financial crash, and is in my view the greatest risk to world peace. It's only since very recently that those in power have been able to release such enormous amounts of destructive force.

There's lots of other factors too. The media defines ever more tightly the permitted cultural norms - of fashion, dress, opinions, respectable topics; and people are becoming more and more conditioned to be conformist (scared to be or think for themselves) despite claims of individuality.

All of this plus sophisticated psychology makes the manipulation of whole populations ever easier and more effective. The inspiration of fear (of terrorism, of Islam, of 'them' as required) is a primary tool, along with so called patriotism and so on.

Resistance to manipulation (and most positive  strengths)  follow not from conformity, but from acceptance of diversity. Put another way - the highest truth is never to be found in the majority view. The opposite in fact - term lowest common denominator comes to mind.

In the meantime it's those least suited to power and position that as a result of their hunger for these that usually end up in charge. Many of those more suited as you say are not perceived as leadership material.

It's a two way street mind you, in that populations consistently place the most dodgy people in power, and as you say the sort of view here will not be the majority one for a very long time.

There's a Buddhist saying to the effect that societies (in terms of wisdom, compassion, efficiency and effectiveness as a reducer of suffering) always come to reflect the moral (in the macro sense) centre of gravity of the population.

One of the first and most important steps we can take on the spiritual path in moving towards 'seeing' more truly is to drop the conditioning society lays on us to respect the major pillars of society - for example the legal system, academia, medicine, mainstream religion and the public/political  systems.

One of my favourite (originally Zen trained) spiritual teachers Richard Rose wrote widely on this in his book 'The Albigen System': http://www.richardroseteachings.com/ Don't be put off by some of the stuff on the site selling his books, it's run by a family member, and seems to have headed in all sorts of unlikely directions. Richard is  dead now, but the organisation he founded continues on: http://tatfoundation.org/index.htm

The point is not that we should attack the insitutions, or other dysfunctional aspects of our world, in that the saying above suggests that what they are is inevitably what they are given what people are - that the only way to address the issue is to work to raise the wisdom/awareness/consciousness of the general population. i.e wars, revolutions, destruction, systems of control and so on can only bring suffering.

And guess what - loving behaviour toward each other is the way to do this - to remove the fear they feel, and to help people to access their heart side and change. I guess it's not enough to just blame the leadership and walk away...