In the 1920s the academic elite began lobbying to install themselves in government without being elected through newly created bureaucracies -- and because of their conceit they called this “progress.”
Only this progress, their progress into positions of power, could create apolitical and objectively correct public policy decisions.
For how could it not? The German philosopher Hegel -- whom the academics silently canonized as a statist saint -- essentially said as much. In his world only administrators could provide the objective analysis necessary to run the perfectly rational state. Like referees making the correct call between competing political forces administrators would purely serve the public good with no ulterior motives.
Or so it was thought.
Over 100 years later the retrograde degeneracy of this deceitful philosophizing has become readily apparent through the behavior of these bureaucracies today.
The CDC, for instance, is one of such many bureaucracies advocated for by Hegel and his academic underlings in America.
And in no way could the CDC’s attempted vaccine mandate be viewed as anything less than political. Instead this agency issued a mandate to rub conservatives’ nose in the fact Biden was in office, not Trump, and they had the power to do so.
Second, in no way have these agencies brought forth the sorts of social and moral progress -- as if humans ever could “morally progress” -- the academics of the last century anticipated it would. Instead the contemporary administrative state spends time and money considering whether or not to send drug addicts government issued paraphernalia.
All of which demonstrates one thing — neanderthal thinking is a hallmark of government that no bureaucracy has ever been able to progress past.
Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University. You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1. Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast (4PM) that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here.
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