Source: Aaron Ross Powell
by Aaron Ross Powell
“American politics is a disaster and it’s due, in large part, to the fact that the people in charge have no idea what they’re doing. They don’t know anything, have little interest in learning, but are confident in their ability to fix everything. The result looks to be about what you’d expect: instead of fixing, they’re breaking, and instead of acknowledging that they broke it, they’re insisting that’s just what ‘fixing’ looks like. One way to frame this is that Americans — or enough Americans to win elections — reject expertise. They don’t value knowledge much anymore, and don’t feel they should be led by experts because they’ve looked around, don’t like what they see, and blame it on the experts having led us astray. The solution, at least in their minds, is to replace experts with non-experts, which can’t be any worse, right?” (02/27/25)
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/reign-of-the-competency-cosplayers