Post by kungfuzu on Aug 22, 2021 11:16:55 GMT -8
The link below will take the reader to an excellent article on how what is happening in Afghanistan is probably a watershed moment in history. I do not know who the author is (clearly a Scandinavian) but what he lays out has the smell of truth. In his eyes, the age of the technocrat, expert, managerial class of rulers is kaputt. Let us hope he is correct.
Farewell Bourgeois Kings
This quote toward the end of the article sums things up.
Farewell Bourgeois Kings
This quote toward the end of the article sums things up.
It is not just that the elite class is incompetent – even kings could be incompetent without undermining belief in monarchy as a system – it is that they are so grossly, spectacularly incompetent that they walk around among us as living rebuttals of meritocracy itself. It is that their application of managerial logic to whatever field they get their grubby mitts on – from homelessness in California to industrial policy to running a war – makes that thing ten times more expensive and a hundred times more dysfunctional. To make the situation worse, the current elites seem almost serene in their willful destruction of the very fields they rely on for legitimacy. When the ”experts” go out of their way to write public letters about how covid supposedly only infects people who hold demonstrations in support of ”structural white supremacy”, while saying that Black Lives Matter demonstrations pose no risk of spreading the virus further, this amounts to the farmer gleefully salting his own fields to make sure nothing can grow there in the future. How can anyone expect the putative peasants of our social order to ”trust the science”, when the elites themselves are going out of their way, against all reason and the tenets of basic self-preservation, to make such a belief completely impossible even for those who really, genuinely, still want to believe?