GLENN REYNOLDS ON SUBSTACK: Worried about experts, and their dubious performance and questionable actual expertise? Read on:

Leaving aside the undemocratic nature of technocracy, technocracy has failed the ultimate in technocratic tests: It doesn’t work. Putting “smart” – which turns out to mean “credentialed” – people in charge of everything, and letting them run things with no real constraints except the blinkered and self-serving opinions of other members of their social class, has turned out not to work very well. Whether in agriculture or in governance, monocultures are unstable, and our ruling class monoculture has been a narrow and increasingly incestuous one. Its performance has failed to justify its existence.

Reynolds' earlier substack thoughts on our 'expert' monoculture is here.