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Robert Barnes
Article of the Day: Wednesday, July 7, 2021
From Jordan Schachtel, that the pandemic should remind us all to assume the elites are lying to us. Instead of Hanlon's Razor (to be applied to ordinary people), this is Barnes' Razor: "When it comes to elites, don't attribute to incompetence what can be explained by malevolence."
"The track record of the ruling class in “stopping the spread” could not be any worse. The vast majority of the problems and the corresponding “solutions” to these problems have no basis in science and/or reason. Dig deep enough into these issues and you’ll find yourself scrambling to find how exactly the “expert” class came to adopt these supposed virus defeating strategies. Sometimes, the “consensus” comes from shoddy academic modeling or recommendations from totalitarian regimes. Other times, “The Science” comes from politically correct, woke ideologues in “elite” academic institutions who don’t even have as much as a junk model to base their findings on.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-era-taught-us-dont-trust
And the facts support the reality that their proposals and commands have been based on nothing from day one. From lockdowns to masks to six foot social distancing to vaccine passports and the like, every strategy imposed on us by the people in charge has done nothing whatsoever to mitigate the virus problem. The ruling class in the United States and the greater Western world has become a blend of an incompetent ideological idiocracy coupled with lying, rudderless, power-hungry sociopaths. These people have not earned our trust, they have only earned our disdain.
The era of trust, but verify is long over. In the COVID-19 era, don’t trust, verify.
Article of the Day: Wednesday, July 7, 2021
From Jordan Schachtel, that the pandemic should remind us all to assume the elites are lying to us. Instead of Hanlon's Razor (to be applied to ordinary people), this is Barnes' Razor: "When it comes to elites, don't attribute to incompetence what can be explained by malevolence."
"The track record of the ruling class in “stopping the spread” could not be any worse. The vast majority of the problems and the corresponding “solutions” to these problems have no basis in science and/or reason. Dig deep enough into these issues and you’ll find yourself scrambling to find how exactly the “expert” class came to adopt these supposed virus defeating strategies. Sometimes, the “consensus” comes from shoddy academic modeling or recommendations from totalitarian regimes. Other times, “The Science” comes from politically correct, woke ideologues in “elite” academic institutions who don’t even have as much as a junk model to base their findings on.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-era-taught-us-dont-trust
And the facts support the reality that their proposals and commands have been based on nothing from day one. From lockdowns to masks to six foot social distancing to vaccine passports and the like, every strategy imposed on us by the people in charge has done nothing whatsoever to mitigate the virus problem. The ruling class in the United States and the greater Western world has become a blend of an incompetent ideological idiocracy coupled with lying, rudderless, power-hungry sociopaths. These people have not earned our trust, they have only earned our disdain.
The era of trust, but verify is long over. In the COVID-19 era, don’t trust, verify.
