ZMan has a podcast (below) providing a very convincing explanation for how our present bureaucratic system allows government bureaucrats and bureaucrats in business and education control essentially all aspects of our lives. If you’re interested in understanding how the system you live in works, listen to this hour long podcast.
What the ZMan does not explain is how we get rid of such a system. He says the whole system has to be replaced. That leaves the question how exactly you go about such a thing. Curtis Yarvin would tell us we would have to somehow install a King/CEO who would fire/pension off the entire federal bureaucracy. It would be interesting to hear these two fellows discuss this idea but it would probably turn into a food fight.
Highly recommended listen.
This was my comment this morning. ZMan’s podcast was pretty good on explaining the pitfalls of our current managerial class and democracy.
This story out of the LA Times correlates to Zman and the subject of democracy. This entire article boils down to the media showing displeasure with ONE County out of 58 in California actually practicing democratic self-rule.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-09/qanon-shasta-california-dominion-lindell
Summary: “Democracy and its process is good and pure, but not when the ‘wrong’ people are democratically put in power.”
Arthur, I think ZMan and the sources he used present a very convincing basis for what we observe in present day America and the rest of the West. What I want to know is how to eliminate it or replace it with our own managers.