Submitted by Dirtperson Steve
Guest Post by Auron MacIntyre
Our current managerial elite predicates its rule on the notion of expertise. Americans once believed that “popular will” granted a ruling class legitimacy, but that story has been replaced with one of scientific knowledge and credentials.
The modern political formula frames the world as a complex series of interconnected scientific disciplines that, if managed with a high degree of proficiency, can yield incredible material abundance and miraculous technological innovations. Competency is the key to utopia. Those who are able to obtain prestigious credentials gain the right to rule due to their unparalleled ability to manage complex systems.
But a fundamental shift in our political formula has put the system on a collision course with disaster.
The woke cultural revolution has escaped the universities that incubated its poisonous rhetoric and rooted itself deeply into every critical institution in the United States. This destructive doctrine seemed strange but quaint when it was being chanted by delusional college students, but everyone should have learned by now that the fashionable college ideology of today becomes the ruling dogma of tomorrow.
The armed forces, major corporations, and medical schools now prioritize diversity over the ability to perform tasks that are critical to people’s survival. Major institutions that are supposed to safeguard the critical functions of our civilization are more interested in elevating transwomen of color than the ability of the organizations to properly execute their functions. Selecting brain surgeons by the obscurity of their sexual preferences instead of their success rate would have sounded like a comedy sketch 10 years ago, but no one is laughing now.
Instead of shaping major events, our incompetent and sclerotic institutions will, more often than not, simply react to the fallout.
Part of the managerial formula meant delegating all major social decisions to this distributed network of expert institutions. Power in the hands of a single leader, even an elected one, could be dangerous. Better to spread that responsibility across many highly competent organizations that specialize in the relevant disciplines. This makes decisive action more difficult, but in theory, it dramatically raises the quality of the policies that will eventually be implemented.
That sounds great when you are still pretending that these institutions are selecting “the best and the brightest.” But now? Please.
Expertise became the holy doctrine of our civilization, and every decision, from how parents educate their children to what we can say to each other on the internet, is mediated by these managerial institutions. These organizations, which now control our lives to an unprecedented degree, are run by those who are most willing to genuflect before the gods of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This selection of ideological loyalty over merit has created a competency crisis inside our critical institutions. The older generations, selected for their ability to do their jobs, are being phased out, and the new generations, selected for skin color and gender fluidity, simply cannot maintain the civilization they have been handed.
In many instances, technological innovation continues due to visionary entrepreneurs, but the social infrastructure on which those innovations rest is crumbling. We have placed more decision-making power into the hands of massive bureaucracies than at any time in human history, but those bureaucracies are increasingly staffed by functionaries who could not make a basic repair to their homes or cars if their lives depended on it. The glue of competency that held this complicated social machinery together is coming apart, yet we continue to shift more and more responsibility to these failing institutions.
We often assume that the amount of time a society has to make decisions about its future is static, but that is not the case. While it is comforting to think that extended deliberation will always yield an educated consensus on what steps to take next, the truth is that events often shrink the window of opportunity to make deliberate choices and societies are instead swept away by circumstance.
The rapid advancement of technology and the interconnected nature of the modern world have greatly reduced the space in which deliberation can occur before the consequences of an event manifest themselves globally. At the same time, the institutions to which we have delegated all our decision-making are less competent and more ideological. The combination of collapsing decision space and the competency crisis inside institutions designed to make those decisions creates a runaway process of acceleration.
As the philosopher Nick Land put it, “The profound institutional crisis that makes the topic ‘hot’ has at its core an implosion of social decision-making capability. Doing anything, at this point, would take too long. So instead, events increasingly just happen.”
SHOP HOLIDAY DEALS
As events accelerate and decision space shrinks, our incompetent and sclerotic institutions will prove incapable of keeping up. Instead of shaping major events, they will, more often than not, simply react to the fallout. As faith in distributed expertise falters, the populace will become more likely to prefer unified and decisive action.
Ultimately, sovereignty lies in exercising the power to make decisions, and if the incompetent bureaucratic institutions or our managerial elite fail to do so, the future will belong to leaders who can.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
The hot mess they are building is destined to fail, and fail badly. However, the BIPOC, LGBTQRST, purple haired weirdos and Squealing Marxist will still blame that inevitable collapse on the white folks that they are presently excluding from fixing or saving it. In their world view they are “fixing it” now. Just like they “fixed” the inner cities, Federal Budget, Woke Military and all the rest.
It is all too far gone and too corrupt to save at this point. Lay low, make a big bag of popcorn and watch the fun.
That is the whole idea, TO make everything fail….controlled demolition of USA…
Some Russian backin days had predicted USA will fall without a single bullet being fired..
They have all levels of society participating in the destruction.
Think about it.
I think there is a goal behind it. Stupidize everyone but those who are powerful and influential. This will make it much easier to 1. rule over the plebes and 2. keep a small number of high IQs improving the lives of TPTB. A sort of new Dark Ages?
Shit is definitely going to go Medieval, kids. And pretty soon methinks.
It’s going Pepcid….
At least in the European Dark Ages, one might be lucky enough to be born a Viking with good rowing arms.
Not foreseeable in this coming storm of boiling excrement.
GNL still believes the group of TPTB and there offspring are not stupid.
God laughs at you both
“Those who are able to obtain prestigious credentials gain the right to rule due to their unparalleled ability to manage complex systems.”
Kind of like when the bible was written in Latin and those who 1. could read Latin and 2. had a copy of the bible could “tell” everyone what the bible said and “meant”?
Latin=Legalese
Meh.
Once again, a self-solving problem.
For example, I will not hire a black doctor, lawyer, dentist, engineer, etc. younger than 60.
I will not hire a trans-anything for anything.
I will not fly commercial (for more reasons than the incompetency issue).
When enough people realize that woke, diversity world is a losing game, this will collapse as another stupid fad.
Sure, lots of people will be maimed and lots will die.
But it’s never stopped stupid in the past…
its working for Disney-
Affirmative action ensured the slow death of meritocracy a long time ago. Without it, every essential infrastructure fails. We’re there. Everything is falling apart right after the warranty expires.
Show me a Fortune 500 Company or bureaucratic institution with “managerial elite”. They are all run by woke pronouns who had brown, black or rainbow passes through Human Resources’ twinks-only turnstile, closely guarded by hostile, eubonics-bellowing water buffalos.
It makes perfect sense that Musk is being hounded by the DOJ for not hiring invading niggers with PhDs in Rocket Telemetry and perfect command of the King’s English, chauffeured by smiling U.S. Border Guards.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/24/spacex-elon-musk-justice-department-lawsuit-hiring-discrimination
It would be discriminatory to not allow just-arrived , disoriented ‘Africans’ an opportunity to fuck up his space shots as bad as Jackson’s 100% ‘African’-managed Water Department, now a 4th-world dog-knot of “Ya’ll best boil it first!”.
https://www.enr.com/articles/54735-jackson-water-crisis-will-cost-billions-to-fix-mayor-says
Double thumbs up on your very first sentence.
Decline and incompetence are national policy by assuring that companies are not allowed to hire the best person for a job.
They want to turn the US govt into the DMV
That should be “have turned” instead of “want to turn”.
Barack Simpson
Come on Merca………..let kikes- cunts-niggers-faggots-illegal aliens and other democrat jackoffs do the thinking for ya.
Nothing prevents you from acheiving a degree of excellence and from seeking others who do the same.
You build relationships predicated on this standard and soon you have community.
Whatever happens to the current systems is not something you can change or alter, but you can capitalize off of it if you are so inclined.
The managerial formula for the past 15 years has been to put some bone ignernt kneegrow in to manage dem white folk and let blacks gain numerous degrees to gain “expert” level. That has proved to be just what it was, a joke.
Those commie joos have a warped sense of humor, but they are top drawer when it comes to destruction and tearing down.
We are approaching peak judaism. The results are predictable for those with eyes to see