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113 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Feb \ on: America's Problem Is Fragility (The American Mind, Josh Hendrickson) BooksAndArticles
I actually think this ideological takeover is more facade than reality. After a thin layer of true adherents there are a bunch of people who pay it lip service, but really don't care one way or the other. They'll shift with the winds, as they've done in the past.
To follow up on this, I also don't think the "regime" selects on ideology; but neither does it select on competence.
I think it's more that perceptions of competence have become entirely self referential. You are competent because the degree says you are competent, and the person conferring that degree is competent to confer it because their degree says so.
Replace degree with position/job title, and so on, ad infinitum, and you get to where we are. And this can persist for a long time becuase there are no market forces to put it in check.
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Yep. It's hard to avoid rent-seeking off of reputation.
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it's DEI, then ideology then credentials
it's also perception of ideology, saying the right buzzwords such as commitment to diversity statements
in the case of air traffic control under Obama and Biden, it's only color, who cares how many people die, most passengers are white anyway
never heard on Spirit Airlines: is there a doctor on board?
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I desperately want that to be true.
Not sure I'm a believer just yet; let the winds turn a bit and maybe I'll come around
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I'm fairly well acquainted with the class of people who make up the federal bureaucracy.
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Pretty amazing
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