Going beyond merely calling attention to the dark underbelly of one of the West's sacred cows it's a relatively safe assertion that the Enlightenment's intellectual offspring-including technocrats, government science advisors, and the elite expert class of academics and commentators-have been responsible for disastrous public policy measures over the past several decades.
Harmful, impractical, and costly ideas of the expert class, as well as the experts themselves, often infiltrate the government's regulatory machine, at which time they are inflicted upon the general populace.
The government itself contains mechanisms that lead to poor choices of experts and officials.
For one thing, the politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace.
Government scientists and public health experts decided that the livelihoods of tens of millions were expendable, and the educational and social needs of a generation of young Americans could be sacrificed for the common good.
The pain caused by government experts will be felt for many years.
They might be Enlightened, but perhaps there is still an incorrigible, ornery remnant in the United States who will resist efforts to be managed, regulated, and perfected by the experts.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Monday, April 5, 2021
The Tyranny of the "Enlightened" Experts
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