1 January 2021
A Land Of Official Experts
The year is 2021. Kissing has been banned. Social interactions of any kind are subject to state permission. Daily government announcements inform the citizenry of acceptable travel limits. In some states, an army of enforcers called ‘Authorised Officers’ roam the streets to keep the population in line. A chaotic system of checkpoints, permits and quarantine has been imposed to control
25 March 2020
Listen To The Experts And Elites, But Remember They’ve Got Form
The Prime Minister’s call for Australians to heed the advice of his government’s experts may fall on deaf ears because the experts and elites have let this country down so many times before, In his press conference last Wednesday, Scott Morrison said “if you hear it from me, if you hear it from a Premier, if you hear it from [Chief Medical Officer]
26 October 2017
How The Cult Of The Expert Weakens Democracy
A new survey from Pew Research Center, which asked 42,000 people in 38 nations about their attitudes towards democracy, has found support for representative democracy is shallow. The survey, which included a cross-section of countries from Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific, found 78 per cent of people believe that representative democracy is a good way to govern their country. Just 17
