Let us imagine a situation in which we have a population which itself exists under some sort of representative government. As in all such systems, the composition and thus the nature of the government in question is determined by the results of a popular vote, which in turn is determined by the respective capabilities of factions to prompt some portion of the citizenry to vote for their chosen candidates. As such, a faction is at a significant advantage by virtue of its ability to communicate, to organize - fundamentally, to prompt some array of actions on the part of some among the polity.
Now, let us imagine that some portion of the polity is possessed of ESP. Each of these people has access to, say, the 9th dimension, which is the dimension that allows people to communicate via psychic powers, I would assume. The psychic residents of Scenario City, being able to communicate with one another with extraordinary ease relative to their fellow citizens, are at a significant advantage in terms of their ability to organize, and in turn to bring about the collective action required to win an election and to otherwise participate effectively in the process of local government. Similarly, this same psychic purview provides those who possess it with near-complete access to the sum total of recorded human knowledge, and those who take some advantage of this boon are far better informed than those who have either chosen not to or who lack ESP to begin with. And it is the nature of knowledge that it tends to lead those possessing it to certain shared conclusions - not by any means to an agreement on the proper role of the state, but there is a marked tendency for the better-informed to ascribe to the theory of evolution, to disagree to at least some extent with such policy implementations as the drug war, and in general to have ruled out any number of beliefs that can be shown to be false or contradictory by reference to historical facts and other things which are not so much disputed as they are simply not widely known.
In such a situation, those with ESP are in a position to heavily influence the nature of the government, and many of them would presumably have some positive effect on such a government were they to do so by virtue of their relative erudition. We might expect that such people as this ought to consider doing such a thing, assuming that such people (1) acknowledge that the processes of government require action on the part of some portion of the citizenry, (2) prefer a well-run government that accords liberty and justice to the population rather than depriving some of them of liberty for no good reason and according all of them injustice to the extent that its institutions fail to do what the population's tax dollars have been collected and spent to do properly, and (3) are of the position that it is not particularly virtuous to expect others to do those things that provide them with liberty and justice while refusing to lift a finger in assistance.
Now, the problem with metaphors is that they often obfuscate the true nature of that which is to be illustrated, and so let us examine the actual situation that I have to some degree already evoked, but in some all broken-y manner.
There are in this area of Brooklyn a great concentration of people who have exceptional skills that could be put to grand use if only they were to choose to do such a thing. Meanwhile, we may conclude without even looking that local governance is not being conducted in an optimal manner, and we may confirm this by noting that, say, local councilpersons are in the habit of having messages built into the display of neighborhood trash cans in which passerby are cajoled to thank the councilperson in question for having provided these trash cans with money that came from the passerby. We may further discover that there are more significant problems in existence here. We may also note that much greater problems than those we face here and now have been solved, to some extent or another, by other individuals who did so at much greater pain to themselves than we could possibly expect to undergo in helping to solve the greatest problems of today. And we need not go so far as to dedicate every moment of our lives to solving the problems faced by ourselves, our community, or people we will never meet in order to bring about some great and positive change by our own actions. This is for the best, because it is extraordinarily difficult to prompt the average Bushwick resident to do anything at all in service to his community, and this is particularly true for those who have benefited most from the conditions that exist in this country by way of the efforts of others.
I am not calling on some technocratic elite to rise up and seize control of Bushwick in order to establish a utopia or even just to get these Giza-esque inscriptions in honor of our elected officials off of our fucking trashcans; there are organizations that have taken up an objective somewhere between those two examples in terms of ambition, including The New Kings Democrats, which promotes reform candidates and otherwise does its bit in attempting to change for the better the political machine under which we are likely to live until such point as we move to somewhere warmer and more honestly-governed like Malaysia. If you are inclined to do the sort of things that others have been doing for you, get in touch with one such person, Matt Cowherd, at mattcowherd@gmail.com. Incidentally, Cowherd is a nice and understanding fellow who doesn't know that I am implicitly insulting people on his behalf in order to shame them into participating in his organization, so do not refrain from looking into it on my account, as in fact I am actually implicitly insulting people on my own behalf in order to get them to join my own organization.
However, this has gotten too long already and so you will have to wait for next week for me to finish my argument as to why you are wrong not to pledge allegiance to a decentralized, internet-based memetic entity that has been designed to perpetuate itself and take on new functions as if it were some sort of metaphysical shared delusion. Lol nuance.