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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

Matt Stoller has a good newsletter about monopoly power https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

Yup, but it's a question of whom society recognizes as smart. Bill and Hill met at Yale. They sold us a bill of good with free trade. They thought they could get away with Hillary crafting a national healthcare system, almost in secret, and that everyone would accept it b/s she's brilliant. Obama, Columbia/Harvard/Univ of Chicago, bailed out bankers, not home owners. That was a disaster.

The term, best and brightest, came into common use in describing to the Kennedy adminstration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_and_the_Brightest They really bungled Vietnam.

I don't know that we've ever been governed by the best and brightest. Sometimes I think we're governed by the most venal and greedy.

Don't ask for other people to identify you, please.

Yup. Look at how the best-and-brightest theory worked out in the mid 20th century--e.g., the Clintons. Technocracy doesn't work.

Bonhoeffer says stupidity is a social thing. I mostly agree. Things didn't turn out well for Bonhoeffer. Shoveling against the tide is exhausting.

I knew that, but thanks. FF's advertisement hit me out of left field and offered things I already have. I've got Proton's new PW manager, which offers email aliases, but I'm used to doing it the old way.

Thanks. Magnolia does the paywall thing for me. :)

Thanks, everyone, for the info and education. I've just discovered and added Privacy Badger to FF. Tracking makes me feel slimed.

I just looked up user agent. If I understand correctly, that changes every time I change browsers. Does it also change every time I clear the cache?

🤣 I like that.