I have recently stumble on this article from well-known author El Gato and it seems pretty actual. What do you think is the reason, why we are facing the crisis of competence?
I think this is the natural progression from participation trophies and telling people that as long as they’ve done their best, it’s enough. We’ve allowed mediocrity equal praise as excellence, and this is where it has gotten us.
I do agree with that, there need to be competition again to have some better results.
“Well-known” is not the same as “competent”. Just thought you should know.
The author talks at length about competence and respect for expertise, then conveniently avoids any mention of climate change. My guess is they’re that type of pseudo-intellectual who is a “climate skeptic” rather than being an actual critical thinker. And of course they know better. Than the experts. Who are competent.
Yep, I know people like that. They are always doubting climate change, and you can add some far-right or incel theory behind.
well-known author El Gato
Who can’t take 2 minutes to put uppercase letters at the beginning of his sentences…
Ah yes, no wonder alarm bells went off when reading this guy. Pro Trump, Covid skeptic, the pattern emerges.
There’s a figure of speech in Dutch: “Iedereen bevoegd, niemand verantwoordelijk”. Roughly translates to: “everyone has authority, then no one is responsible”.
It happens at every large organization, especially governments.
Buzzy bees inventing buzzy work, titles, task forces, drama, etc. When all goes well they applaud themselves. When things go south, they delay, point at each other, which is very effective.
It demotivates the people that actually do stuff. Untill they stop caring. Then things break down over a couple years time.
It’ll take a crisis larger than this to cull and change. Pointing fingers will work once more.
Wealth inequality.
