When the Experts Fail, Everyone Else Pays the Price -- David Mamet (WSJ)
The virus here is government—or at least the incompetents who advise our rulers and cannot admit the legitimacy of dissension. Absent intervention, this virus may eventually kill the host organism.
God, I love Mamet! It's a pity he's mostly Out Of Favor nowadays. This article speaks to so much of what I have seen in government and academia. But Mamet curiously omits any mention of the Peter Principle: in any organization, individuals tend to rise to their level of incompetence. So it is with government agencies. Dr. Fauci comes to mind. The Right is not immune to this sort of thing, but since the Right is currently out of power, we will ignore them for now.
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