On the Potentially Deadly Good Intentions of Bureaucrats and Experts

Why do most of us listen to our bureaucrats with such reverence? Why do we now regularly defer to them over simple common sense and adult judgment?

Vic Biorseth, Friday, April 10, 2020
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We have talked about the danger to the general good posed by the rise of specialization over general, universal, all-encompassing education, most recently in the General Practitioner treatment. Once upon a time the reason the most gifted among us went to the "University" was to get a "Universal" and well rounded general higher education. But the more specialized the expert becomes, the more narrowly focused, perhaps to the point of wearing blinders, and not seeing what is to the right or to the left as they plow their super-straight and highly specialized furrows.

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