The UN Secretary-General election feels a lot like secondary school campaign. Olara is about to promise us piped porridge to our homesteads. Show us the structure you want to build and let us decide if we want to live in that world or not. If the structure is good, it doesn't even have to be you that builds it. Just sharing with us a clear vision of the world you want to see is enough, the universe will take it from there. But instead, everyone is there convincing us that they are good people, good professionals, and someone literally said they think they deserve it because they are a woman. What kind of circus is this? School has conditioned all these people into a useless hunger to win; they are not capable of seeing when winning is hurting them.
Give us a clear thesis of how you think the world is organized and give us a new structure of how you believe the world ought to be organized. We will not be surprised that most of the people contesting to lead the UN are simpletons who believe in simplistic modernist ideas like capitalism, communism, etc., but have never bothered to actually capture a clear screenshot of how the world is organized today and how it differs from those modernistic, vaguely defined ideas. We need leaders who are not just obsessed with repairing but are also capable of building something entirely new.
To even qualify to contest, the candidates should be required to write a clear analysis of the world today, at least as the UN understands it, and then share a clear proposal of the structure of the world that the UN wants to see happen. And let the voting be a bet on the structure that the voters prefer to see happen. Let them share these ideas publicly so we can run them through LLMs and laugh at how stupid all these world leaders are. But at the end of it all, we shall learn that the bar for leading the UN is set artificially high for tribal reasons, and it has nothing to do with competence as all the candidates are trying to signal in their campaigns.
The tone is intentional, forgive me. If I met Dr. Otunnu, I of course would be extremely respectful. But I guess my point is that if I am not convinced that any of the contestants is capable of making the UN relevant, none of the people voting are convinced either. So the speeches and what not are all just for circus. The leader is expected to be voted on tribal grounds. And so for what it is worth, I endorse Dr. Otunnu, because like me, he is a Ugandan.
You can view Olara's speeches on the UN YouTube Channel
