I'm a huge sci-fi fan and the Star Trek universe is my favorite as far as shows go. I would love to see a lot more of that type of leadership in action. But it's fiction for a reason...

How do you think those ruthless leaders in our world got those leadership positions (despite having few actual skills)? Because in our culture ruthlessness is what reads as leadership. And I'll remind you again that CEOs have a significantly higher level of sociopathic traits.

I don't agree with you about Westerns. That John Wayne stuff is all Patriarchy on steroids and it is glossing over the Might Makes Right aspect by trying to make you believe that they are morally justified in exerting domination in that way. Ever watched The Searchers? That's a perfect example. The "horrible" Comanche come and massacre a family (who is on their land) and take the youngest daughter. The white folks go and look for her and bring her back. But turns out in real life, she didn't want to come back and one of the family even tries to shoot her rather than allow her to live as she wishes as a Comanche. She found the tough life of living as an Indian much preferably to the absurd hierarchy of life in the white world. And this is quite common - something that Benjamin Franklin noted often -that natives always wanted to return to their cultures and white people rarely did, preferring the relative autonomy and true social bonding of native tribes over the dominance hierarchies of whites.

Another book for your list which talks about this incident that is portrayed in The Searchers in detail, Empire of the Summer Moon. It's very good.