Amerika

Free us from the tyranny of experts! It seems that people who want to sabotage a society first begin building mindless complexity. Since none of the parts relate to each other, this requires memorization of odd tactics and arcane labyrinths of rules, which in turn leads to the need for experts to manage the complexity.

Therein lies the rub because experts depend on other experts, and textbooks and industry magazines, for how to do their jobs, and they depend on the news media for a focus on what is trending right now and therefore, exploitable as a means to fame and fortune. When you depend on the herd, you have to sell what the herd wants to believe.

Our modern time shows us worship of science, but most of science is wrong and will be replaced next generation anyway. We depend on media, but these outlets are basically repeating back to us what we have signaled we want to believe is true. Our knowledge moves in a circle as a means of repeating itself, and not enough of the wrong gets corrected.

In politics this manifests itself as perpetual deference to the past. Ronald Reagan won on an alliance between conservatives, libertarians, and Christians, so when nineteen candidates competed for the nomination in 2015, they all recited recombinant variations of the same strong defense, Jesus/Israel, and capitalism as a substitute for culture.

Their textbooks told them what to do; the textbooks were wrong again. The textbooks riff on what happened two generations ago, when the teachers who taught those who later wrote the textbooks were young. Business, science, academia, media, and entertainment all follow this process of regurgitating the past.

This shows us the classic means-over-ends thinking of Crowdism. No one is aiming to achieve anything; they merely want their place in the system, so they do what others did to get to that point. Never mind that time has moved on, cycles have shifted, and now the experts are preaching ignorance in place of knowledge.

Tags: experts, means over ends