#DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Are you a monarch, priest, or apostle?

Do you see yourself as:
a) a #monarch,
b) a #priest,
c) an #apostle, or
d) #none of the above?

From Daniel Davies in #UnaccountabilityMachine?
“For nearly all of history, there have been two kinds of authority taking the big decisions affecting people’s lives. There is a fundamental distinction between ‘kings’ and ‘priests’. A #king might be more powerful, but his orders can be argued against – it might be inadvisable to do so, but if you can change the king’s mind you can change the decision. The #priest, on the other hand, gains his authority from his status as the interpreter of the Word of God, so his decisions are considerably more difficult to reverse.
This means that it matters a great deal which kinds of decisions are given to which kinds of authorities, and the question of the boundary between the two spheres has often been one of the central issues of entire eras – it was the subject of the Thirty Years War in Europe.
A lot of the discontent in the modern world might come from having taken decision-making structures that were designed with ‘king-like’ leaders in mind, and handing them over to managers who didn’t act in the same way.”