This is hilarious and infuriating
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Rather compelling refutation of the notion we should be ruled by “experts” and follow “the science” cited by such “experts”.
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The insufferable arrogant woman calls herself a doctor of political science.
She has deactivated her X account.
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The picture on the right looks like a tranny.
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Out with the woke mind virus and in with the “folk unwind virus” to attack bureaucracy. The federal government has around three million civilian employees, with an average salary of $106,000. Dr. Anthony Fauci made $481,000 in 2022. There’s room to cut. Mr. Trump has said he may close the Education Department and move its function to the states. Good start.
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That is a rather surprising graphic. The European Union leads in only one category; who would have guessed that that category would be … Space Science?
The “Top 1%” of cited publications may be a rather unrepresentative slice, because of the phenomenon of the foundational paper – the first major breakthrough in a particular discipline which follow up publications generally reference. How else to explain the EU lead in … Space Science?
It is also rather unexpected to see the dominance of China in the hard sciences & technologies, including Computer Science. Those are the places where foundational original breakthrough papers would have been expected to be US or EU.
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I agree with your analysis. The methodology of scientometrics needs to stay ahead of Goodhart’s law - there are abundant incentives to play up citations:
Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.[3]
The chart above is interesting but obviously subject to problems of analysis.
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I think the first graphic misses the possibility that populism follows something that looks and feels like oligarchy. The last go around in the US with populism was in the time of the Robber Barons.
The Gracchi brothers could be considered populists. Whether they used appeals to fear and prejudice or whether they were fighting a corrupt system or both is debatable.
My personal hypothesis is that revolution happens regardless of system when a certain percentage of the population believes it is doing worse relative to a comparable.
This is why the US is more likely to experience revolution versus China. On absolute terms the US citizen has it better, but in relative terms China’s population has witnessed enormous improvement. The “mood” of the population is mostly independent of type of government and more based on economic improvement relative to recent past.
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Marc Andreessen was recently interviewed by Joe Rogan. Prominently discussed was a meeting with Biden (and his external storage and processing appliances) Andreessen attended. He called it frightening, as they revealed plans to kill in the crib all but a few completely-state-controlled AI platforms which will become the only “TRUTH”. This was exactly my first fear when AI became widely discussed. Andreessen described the means by which disfavored companies are destroyed by raw state “unofficial” power - like forcing banks to “de-bank” whoever the Biden Administration doesn’t like. This and other illegal means have been used (and even before, by the deep state, Biden) and are bing used more widely. It is the very essence of FASCISM, whose definition - as usual with words unhelpful to the left) is ignored or forgotten. This is indeed scare, especially combined with CBDC. The sum of these is no freedom at all, anywhere. If anything deserves a revolution, these two acts do.
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Not to even mention that the president-elect runs a website called Truth Social!
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