Collapse of the Managerial Class

[Bud_Spencer]

A brilliant essay on how how Afghanistan has laid bare the incompetence and self-dealing of our technocratic overlords and how the collapse of this elite is now inevitable:

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/farewell-to-bourgeois-kings/

 

[CornusKousa]

If we make it as a nation for another 10 years, we'll do it to ourselves again.....we just can't help ourselves.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

If we make it as a nation for another 10 years, we'll do it to ourselves again.....we just can't help ourselves.

If we leave these utterly incompetent "experts" in charge, it's inevitable.

They gave us this doddering old imbecile:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-19-at-18.45.46.png

 

[phrodeau]

Invest in pitchforks.

 

[adrina]

Invest in pitchforks.

And tiki torches.

 

[WillJ8787]

Invest in pitchforks.

Chuckles

 

[WillJ8787]

And tiki torches.

Bigly chuckles

 

[bellisarius]

Good read. It hits on a theme I've held for years, that being that technology does not equal societal advancement. Going back even further than the author of the article there is no doubt that the ancient Egyptians were the technological superpower of their day, as were the Sumerians and the Romans. Along with their technology came a huge bureaucratic class that they built to support that technology and control the populations.

Along with that technology came a societal hubris that caused them to become complacent. You can observe this in virtually any society that reached any level far above that of the surrounding cultures. Had they wanted to the Aztec could have wiped out Cortez in a heartbeat, and the Inca could have done the same to Pizzaro.

We, the United States are approaching that threshold, if indeed we haven't already passed it. It should be noted that the Chinese aren't all that far behind. In both cases the bureaucratic overburden stifles creativity and innovation, while forcing undue regulation on society. None of this can be tolerated over extended periods of time. Kurt Vonnegut wrote an excellent little book called "Player Piano" that looks at this phenomena from the micro level.

Biological evolution takes place over great swaths of time and while we can achieve great advances in technology the human psyche has not advanced at anywhere near the same pace. As a matter of fact there is evidence that the mean IQ in Western cultures are falling and have been for sometime now. The serious psychologists are struggling to explain why while the "social" psychologists are denying that IQ matters.

Regardless, a change is coming and coming quickly and that change won't necessarily be for the better.

 

[Champakian]

And, don't forget, Player Piano ended with everyone trying to
pick up the pieces and rebuild that which they destroyed...

 

[bellisarius]

And, don't forget, Player Piano ended with everyone trying to
pick up the pieces and rebuild that which they destroyed...

That was the ultimate irony.

 

[pecksniff]

As a matter of fact there is evidence that the mean IQ in Western cultures are falling and have been for sometime now.

No, it's rising. See Flynn effect.

The serious psychologists are struggling to explain why while the "social" psychologists are denying that IQ matters.

Nobody knows what IQ is. It is some stable personal psychological characteristic, in the sense that if you take two well-designed tests a few years apart you'll get roughly the same score -- but nobody's sure that score means anything but "secretarial skills."

Some psychologists reject the concept of a general intelligence factor g and posit instead the existence of several independent axes of intelligence in each person. See Howard Gardner.

 

[Rightguide]

A brilliant essay on how how Afghanistan has laid bare the incompetence and self-dealing of our technocratic overlords and how the collapse of this elite is now inevitable:

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/farewell-to-bourgeois-kings/

The sad truth is if the Taliban do not allow them to leave, those Americans and others who worked for us are all going to become hostages or dead if Biden does nothing. So, it's either that, or we go back in and get them. Which we can do if the President orders it.