How has human civilization reached such an advanced form when pretty much everybody in the world is incompetent?
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the reverse of that maybe what The Cartoonist Who Shall Not Be Named calls "harnessing the power of stupidity"
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o ring theory of the state
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Seriously, though. Reading a big door-stop on Byzantine history at the moment and it's remarkable how much the continuation of the thing relied not so much on fancy conquerors as it did on unflashy forgotten workhorse reformers, like Anastasius and Constans II.
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future socrates will take to the agora to ask "what is competence" and slink off in despair
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