power through ineptitude

First we must agree that human beings are social animals, the kind who has the instinct to get together and form groups. Then we must agree that in this social structure that is herd shaped, we are permanently waiting for the slow ones.

In an group of persons, as large as you imagination can handle (knowing everyone's name) you will have rare individuals that are charismatic, then you have the larger portion which are "normal" people, and then finally those who want power but have not enough competences to get it.

People who are useless get power though ineptitude, forcing the fastest ones to run slow, making the word so unbelievable bureaucratic and slow that the smartest ones begin to die by the lack of oxygen.
This is how we rule our own world, allowing the slow ones to take control by brute force.