We live in an affluent society - which is great, but it also creates an opportunity to engage in bullsh*t. And idle minds are the Devil's workshop. Especially, bureaucrat’s minds. It seems that groups of people - especially large groups, organizations, political parties and factions - are particularly vulnerable. They develop their own “settled science” - in essence, shared belief systems.
Someone like Zbig Brzezinski convinced some influential people that expanding NATO is a good thing. This became policy. Every time a new country joins - it is a great victory (like now, wrt Sweden and Finland). New jobs for bureaucrats are created, people get promotions, more colonels become generals… Momentum carries on.
One of the mysterious faiths of our days, for example, is globalism. The US GDP is probably 20-25% of the global - while the population is ~5%. Isn’t it obvious that globalization - which implies equalization of the standards of living - is very much against the interests of American citizens??
And yet, it’s become a matter of faith, and the kooks keep pushing it, relentlessly. |
