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  • The Danger Of A Successful Society: Absurdity

    07/12/2025 12:06:30 PM PDT · by Starman417 · 2 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 07-12-25 | Vince
    I spend a lot of time talking about how western civilization – in particular as driven by the United States – is easily the greatest that mankind has yet created. If one looks at it objectively, it’s not even close. The list of things that are part of the everyday life of people around the world is basically a list of things that were invented or developed in the west. From cars to planes to advanced agriculture to elevators to plastic and mobile phones and computers and DNA and much, much more. But every now and then something happens that...
  • The Decline And Fall Of Our So-Called Degreed Experts

    06/30/2025 10:08:42 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 06/30/2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    <p>The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.</p><p>Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.</p>
  • The Icarian Gene: The Rise and Fall of the Expert Class

    06/27/2025 6:56:33 AM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | June 26, 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    The warning was stark. At issue was a privileged class that has long dictated policy despite countervailing public opinion. At issue, the luminary warned, is nothing short of democracy itself. No, it was not the continued rallies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., VT) to “fight oligarchy.” It was Justice Clarence Thomas rallying his colleagues to fight technocracy, or government by experts. He warned against allowing “elite sentiment” to “distort and stifle democratic debate.” Yet, the story is even more profound of an elite class which succumbed to the Icarian gene and fell to Earth due to hubris and excess. In...
  • Dec 2, 2025: "The expert class is failing, and so is Biden’s presidency"

    01/22/2025 4:27:50 AM PST · by edwinland · 19 replies
    Nate Silver Substack ^ | Dec 2 | Nate Silver
    It hasn’t exactly been the best century for the expert class. Begin with the response to September 11 — the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, which were supported by bipartisan majorities. Then the financial crisis and the bailouts. Then Brexit and the election of Trump. Then the pandemic: what was supposed to be a triumph of management for a technocratic elite instead wound up as a worst-of-all-worlds scenario with prolonged restrictions and school closures and 7 million dead — from a virus possibly caused by sloppy scientific research practices. Then inflation, which was supposed to be a thing of the past....
  • Arrogant Dem quote of the week: Rural Americans ‘have no contact with the expert class’ (David Brooks)

    12/12/2020 10:25:52 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 127 replies
    Newsla ^ | 12 10 2020 | Staff
    New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks ignited a wave of backlash after insulting rural Americans who have no contact with the “expert class.” SNIP “Look at how much more Republicans are affected by conspiracy theories than the Democrats, so it can’t just be the internet, there must be some demand,” Brooks said, pointing out the “two core problems.” “A lot of people in the expert class live in blue cities who are thriving,” he claimed. “And a lot of people left behind in the rural parts of America, they feel threatened economically, culturally, socially and they have no contact...