Christopher Collins (@Collzone)

@Heartiste Related. I recommend an interesting essay linked in today’s ‘Friday Reads’ at ‘The American Sun’ site: ‘How Race Politics Liberated The Elites.’ Credentialism isn‘t the main thesis, but its explained as an ill side effect of a larger problem. “The notion of expertise is important. There appears to be a circle of mutual support between political correctness, technocratic administration, and the bloated educational machinery. Because smartness (as indicated by educational credentials) confers title to rule in a technocratic regime, the ruling class adopts a distinctly cognitivist view: virtue does not consist of anything you do or don’t do, it consists of having the correct opinions. This is attractive, as one may then exempt oneself from the high-minded policies one inflicts upon everyone else.”