MANDARINS AND CREDENTIALISTS ARE THE SAME (And always produce the same ends: the

MANDARINS AND CREDENTIALISTS ARE THE SAME
(And always produce the same ends: the conversion from empirical governmnet to ideological and finally into religous – gradual disconnection from reality.)

Of course I agree.

I’m on a warpath against what Turchin calls “Credentialists” and what Mike, and the fellow whose post he’s sharing refer more negatively as ‘Mandarins’.

Yet, Mandarins proved the failures of credentialism well before us. And we should have known, that by importing the German attempt to build a professional bureaucracy (and their resulting extraordinary efficiency) would only work if like the Germans we also 1) took that bureaucracy from those who had already performed in the military, and 2) were culturally German – meaning putting the commons before the self, in loyalty, duty, and piety – which is simply the application of the military of the aristocracy and militia to the governance of the bureaucracy of the state and her people.

Instead we have two consistent factors: (a) clientelism in the bureaucracy (b) credentialism in the bureaucracy – because industry and military who are empirical have been replaced by academy and credentialists who are ideological and anti-empirical.

Hugs

Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation

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