Thought for the day.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Is the creation and maintenance of a post modern technical society simply too complex to be entrusted to politicians?

Are there any alternatives?

[newshound]

Yes and No?

[The Natural Philosopher]

The depressing thought is that this may indeed be the correct answer.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Elysium

[John Rumm]

An army of unelected technocrats, with "competencies" to handle it :-)

[newshound]

I fear that it is. Hillary Clinton probably lost the election by saying that half of Trumps supporters were deplorables. Which, by any rational assessment, they are. But I don't see us going back to the times when only landowners (almost by definition the only people with a formal education at the time) have the vote. So we are probably stuck with populist politicians, leaving us with technocrat civil servants to try to steer some sort sensible policy courses. It's a declining proportion of academics and journalists that don't follow the path of least resistance.

[Andrew]

There is a huge supply of highly educated and competent technical people and builders from Eastern Europe and India.

The Brits can do what they are good at, playing poker with house prices, whinging and banging out excessively large families on the benefit system (and then moaning that they have to use food banks).

[Tim Streater]

Wow, that would be a real trough to get yer snout into!

[Jock]

Nope.

Nope.

[Andy Burns]

Sounds like yet another cryptocurrency ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bur not as deplorable as those that support the democrats,

But I don't see us going back to the times when

Education is no guarantee of quality either. It is a guarantee of a Marxist candidate though. No pone except a Marxist goes into politics if they have a qualification outside of politics and philsophy.

[newshound]

Don't recall ever seeing Democrats invading the Capitol to try to reverse an election result

Back in the days before universal suffrage you could certainly count on landowners to vote for their best interests. But personally, I'd argue that this was broadly in the national interest as well. It kick-started the industrial revolution.

Education gave us Adam Smith a century before Karl Marx.

Boris read Classics.

[Custos Custodum]

Palpable nonsense.

[Bob Eager]

I doubt he actually read anything. He's too lazy.

How did he get his degree? I leave you to judge.

[Jock]

Bet you can't manage anything like this.

[David P]

---------- Just because you're good at getting elected doesn't mean you're good at solving problems! You have to be honest to solve problems; you don't have to be honest to get elected!

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------------- Job requirement for politicians: attend regular meetings of a spiritual recovery program, to learn a new way of life! If it works for alcoholics and addicts (and it does!), then it'll work for *anyone*!

[Jethro_uk]

Sortition ?

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, they simply tried to impeach the president via a load of fake stories using the courts

Agreed.

Not sure that was any thing to boast about.

I don't regard that as a qualification for anything

[Robin]

Anthony Leggett (Nobel prize winner for physics) said that his Oxford classics ('Greats') degree qualified him to know the different Greek letters

[whisky-dave]

Pretty easy to buy one, and/or get someone else to do the work.