Jan 5, 2020, 2:40 PM
by Luke Weinhagen
—“… the freedom we have enjoyed in America is not the fruit of fortuitous accident, of great natural resources, or of mere isolation from the tangled skein of European politics. It is the direct result of purposeful thinking and hard work. It is the child of the cult of competency—intellectual competency, physical competency, moral competency…”—
Source ( http://ergo-sum.net/literature/CultOfCompetency.pdf)
The address the above excerpt is pulled from has become something of an inspiration for me in defining and pursuit of a cult of competence.
The problems we are working to provide solutions for now have been plaguing man for at least as long as we’ve been writing it story down.
The cult of competence has always been there in some form wherever dangerous free individuals pursue fruitful and virtuous interaction with other dangerous free individuals.