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More on JMGreer's theme of the fall from grace, and from public esteem, of technocrat experts. Another vintage piece

And - no surprises for guessing - the total ‘experts’ pigs-breakfast of the covid scam, and the catastrophically lame-brained responses to it, look like being major blows to the swarming, drone-ish technocrats; if not the final coup de grace.

The completely unhideable, unspinnable disaster of the poisons stabs, and before them of the disastrous lockdown rules, is coming clearer and clearer to ever more average punters; as Mattias D points out: when enough people resist, and insist on stating the real truths as loudly as possible, crazy-delusional mass formations dissolve and fall apart; so - keep sluggin’ with the truth folks! :slight_smile: :

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I’ve just read the four articles in sequence, to grasp the whole argument JMG is advancing. ‘Clerisy’ is a really good shorthand for the PMC (Professional and Managerial Class) because it captures the woo-woo element so accurately: the expert as priestly sage.

I liked his phrase ‘chronological snobbery’ as well: the notion that everything is always getting better so why bother looking at what our forebears discovered?

Michael McClonkey covers some similar ground in his blog and at length in his recent book The Professional Class On Trial. It’s not so much the Technocracy that he is aiming at, but the expert class of social policy makers, street level bureaucrats, administrators of every ilk, and not forgetting the damn lawyers!

There are good grounds for hoping that the Covid chickens really have come home to roost, with the narrative being rewritten at pace. Lots of work still to do in continental Europe though, Germany in particular.