Struldbruggian

— The methods employed to select economic and political leaders must be modified in a manner suited to allow, in the future, a sufficient number of places to those under (say) fifty; otherwise, given both present methods of selection and prospective changes in age composition, too much power may pass into the hands of gerontocrats with a Struldbruggian incapacity for fashioning or selecting economic and political policies suited to the needs of the times.