Experts have Abdicated Their Responsibilities

The social class that has received university education during the last thirty years has taken control of our institutions without assuming the responsibilities that go with this power. As a result we find ourselves in a society that depends on experts who, seeing the people as a manipulable mass, systematically ignore their will. They seek power but no longer even try to establish the moral authority required for the exercise of respectful leadership.

In the West we are being subjected to the "Politics of Fear," something previously seen in Italy with the "Strategy of Tension", in which the government attacks its own population, or "Covers" for others that do, with the goal of creating a climate of widespread fear that will induce the people to accept certain, otherwise non-attractive, policy prescriptions.

As a result we find ourselves in a society that depends on experts who, seeing the people as a manipulable mass, systematically ignore their will.

MP: Who are these experts? TH: It is a transversal collection of people that includes politicians, scientists, and academics, as well as journalists.

How come they always succeed? TH: I think it is rooted in the fact that during the three decades or so following World War II Western governments, mindful of the suffering caused by the war, provided new mechanisms for involving people in governmental matters, leading many citizens to believe these governments were truly interested in their problems and dilemmas.

This simulacrum of democracy functioned fairly well until the people began asking for still more of a say in public affairs during the 60s and 70s. Sensing that their ability to control and drive social, cultural, and economic policy was slipping away, the elites turned to the politics of fear, an approach rooted in the belief that when people are fearful they will react by seeking refuge in the arms of the authorities presently in charge.

Now, in keeping with the ethos of the politics of fright, they are constantly telling us to fear the Right, and hoping that in our scared state, we will ignore all the ways in which the Left has failed to protect the interests and freedoms of the common people, and to see them as the good and enlightened people who will save us from the supposedly brutish and generally less prosperous foot soldiers of the Right.

MP: It's still hard to understand why people continue to fall for it.

https://brownstone.org/articles/experts-have-abdicated-their-responsibilities/