The cancer of modern managerial democracies is manifest in governments that do not simply govern, as in the past; but that want always & everywhere to be *solving problems*, and - what is worse - solving them with simplistic unifaceted universal here’s-one-cool-trick solutions.
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Right now their highest aspirations involve absurdities like changing the weather or ending disease, things that can obviously never happen, but that can become more or less permanent fixations for generations of mediocre career bureaucrats and ‚scientists‘
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As much as I want Corona to end - & believe me, I want this - I am deeply terrified about what this cadre of clown-car lunatics will alight upon as the next cause, now that they know this degree of interference & disruption is open to them.
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In this regard inequality is the ultimate problem
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yes exactly. when (if) we stop hearing about it, we‘ll know this fetid political era is over.
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