The New Class: Savages Amidst a Technology They Don't Understand

[jordan179]

From Daniel Greenfield, "Government Is Magic," Sultan Knish, October 27th, 2013:

Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.

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[celandine13]

This is precisely, precisely, the thing I fear.

The lack of skill, the lack of grounding in reality, the obsession with style over substance, the lack of coordination. You can only live out of the hull of an old civilization so long.

I'm not an engineer. I can program a little, I can handle math and statistics, I can manage a team and I've built (with others) a business from the ground up. But it's not enough. I can't learn enough, or work enough, to make up for the ground we're losing. That ACA website scandal was scary. It's happening too *fast.*

Those of us who care about the future really need to coordinate. My focus right now is health care. Message me if you want to talk. I'm not a bigshot. I'm a mathematician turned startup worker-bee; we think we have a workable strategy for beginning to fix medicine. Making things better by starting at ground level, offering patients medical information tools that work better than the system's, rather than trying to reform the government-medical complex through advocacy.

I'm sure there are other people/organizations out there contributing that I don't know about. With complementary skills and tactics to ours. Or working on replacing our other failing institutions -- infrastructure, education, etc. I want to get a better idea of who the "good guys" are. I know some of them, but my picture is probably very limited.

There's a lot of "good guys," in one sense. A lot of people, just by going in to work every day, are keeping the lights on in civilization. There are nurses and EMTs and surgeons. But each good, competent person's sphere of influence is small, without some sort of coordination and strategy. Who's planning? Who's steering?

Seriously, I'm looking for allies, more experienced people, anybody working on these problems. I'd like to believe that somewhere out there, there are pros, way out of my league in terms of skill and accomplishment, who have things under control, who are setting up a plan to prevent future disasters. I haven't found them yet, though.