The Auron MacIntyre Show - December 01, 2023


The Competency Crisis is Upon Us ｜ 12⧸1⧸23


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

156.5002

Word count

1,453

Sentence count

80

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Our current managerial elite predicates its rule on the notion of expertise. But a fundamental shift in our political formula has put the system on a collision course with disaster. The woke cultural revolution has escaped the universities that incubated its poisonous rhetoric, and rooted itself deeply into every critical institution in the United States.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Our current managerial elite predicates its rule on the notion of expertise.
00:00:43.540 Americans once believed that popular will granted a ruling class legitimacy,
00:00:47.960 but that story has been replaced with one of scientific knowledge and credentials.
00:00:51.860 The modern political formula frames the world as a complex series of interconnected scientific disciplines
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00:01:06.300 Competency is the key to utopia.
00:01:08.780 Those who are able to obtain prestigious credentials gain the right to rule due to their unparalleled ability to manage complex systems.
00:01:16.260 But a fundamental shift in our political formula has put the system on a collision course with disaster.
00:01:23.700 The woke cultural revolution has escaped the universities that incubated its poisonous rhetoric
00:01:28.820 and rooted itself deeply into every critical institution in the United States.
00:01:33.380 This destructive doctrine seemed strange but quaint when it was being chanted by delusional college students.
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00:02:21.900 Part of the managerial formula meant delegating all major social decisions to this distributed network of expert institutions.
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00:03:01.300 Expertise became the holy doctrine of our civilization, and every decision, from how parents educate their children
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00:05:01.740 This selection of ideological loyalty over merit has created a competency crisis inside our critical institutions.
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00:05:19.180 simply cannot maintain the civilization they have been handed.
00:05:22.400 In many instances, technological innovation continues due to visionary entrepreneurs,
00:05:28.820 but the social infrastructure on which those innovations rest is crumbling.
00:05:34.760 We have placed more decision-making power into the hands of massive bureaucracies
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00:05:41.440 but those bureaucracies are increasingly staffed by functionaries
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00:05:49.520 The glue of competency that held this complicated social machinery together is coming apart,
00:05:57.000 yet we continue to shift more and more responsibility to these failing institutions.
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00:06:59.900 The rapid advancement of technology and the interconnected nature of the modern world
00:07:06.000 have greatly reduced the space in which deliberation can occur
00:07:10.480 before the consequences of an event manifest themselves globally.
00:07:14.300 At the same time, the institutions to which we have delegated all of our decision-making
00:07:20.520 are less competent and more ideological.
00:07:24.400 The combination of collapsing decision space and the competency crisis inside institutions
00:07:30.360 designed to make those decisions creates a runaway process of acceleration.
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00:07:38.640 The profound institutional crisis that makes the topic hot
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00:07:54.680 As events accelerate and decision space shrinks,
00:07:59.360 our incompetent and sclerotic institutions will prove incapable of keeping up.
00:08:05.160 Instead of shaping major events,
00:08:07.320 they will, more often than not, simply react to the fallout.
00:08:11.640 As faith in distributed expertise falters,
00:08:15.040 the populace will become more likely to prefer unified and decisive action.
00:08:20.020 Ultimately, sovereignty lies in exercising the power to make decisions.
00:08:25.940 And if the incompetent bureaucratic institutions or our managerial elite fail to do so,
00:08:31.860 the future will belong to leaders who can.
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