ABSTRACT
Who runs the world? Who ought to run it? Surely we expect the adults to be in charge? In politics today, when it is suggested “the adults need to be in charge,” we see how routinely it can be asserted that lack of maturity in high places is dangerously disadvantageous to the community at large. No one in the world of serious politics (for which adults from time to time cast their serious votes) will consider that a child’s fresh eyes or approach might help to solve pressing problems (or, for instance, those adult-made catastrophes with which today’s children may later have to live).
