I'm not a sociopath and that term isn't used anymore by the way. My point in making that was that it fits into the natural order of life and our universe. Without our elites, no matter what century humanity would be dead. The common masses are too dumb to lead or pioneer new fields. There always needs to be ditch diggers, secretaries, loan officers and leaders etc.
I still use it and so do most people. I'm not going to send Sherdoggers to the DSM to figure out what I'm talking about.
Humanity would be dead without our elites? Political elites? Louis Pasteur wasn't a politically powerful man, but has saved more lives than possibly anyone in human history.
You also can't combine the intellectual elites and politically powerful people into one meaningful group here, since it's the people that start wars whom you admire. It was the intellectuals that ended World War 2. They developed the science that ended it, and it also happened that they literally begged the political elites (of the Allies) not to use the Bomb on Japan.
The Elite Pol Pot's "political platform" was literally doing away with all education.
If you actually believe that we aren't mean to be ruled and serve a higher power than by good luck making sense out of the world. The people who make it to the top are for all intent and purposes the superiors of a society. Only the filth wold disagree (monarchies aside) but hey most mon archives were overthrown by true leaders.
Meant to serve a higher power? What does that even mean?
War will exist whether you want to pretend it won't or not. Sleeping in your safe little bed is the result of "sociopaths" who take preemptive measures to assure your safety and that of your 'nation'. War isn't bad in of itself it serves a purpose and is just a part of humanity. It makes the world go round the same way that animals hunt and kill one another and the same way that viruses spring up and kill off large segments humanity (black death anyone?) It's a dog eat dog wold which is why your people, family and nation and higher power should come first.
The way you are viewing things sounds like the way sociopaths pre-emptively view their targets as about to do the same thing to them, thus justifying their actions / invasions / aggressions.
And also the way you are justifying taking advantage of / infringing upon others. "It's the pinnacle of human existence, and it pushes our species forward, so it's like a moral responsibility to take advantage of these other people to keep humanity moving forward!"
That's the very reason we've had to develop laws against fraud, theft, rape, slander, libel, etc. These aren't really "moving humanity forward." These are just remedial work to correct and disincentivize the worst that humans do to each other.
And why are you praising war? It's not bad in and of itself? Are you fucking serious?
You don't think a world without war, or the constant threat of war, or the constant threat of being invaded and killed by other nations is something worth striving for?
And you are going to declare it outright impossible to achieve from the get go. Why? I refer you again to your own stated worldview.
