February 23, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Too good to excerpt
I was trying to pick out a good teaser from this Jim Henley piece on the institutional managerial class, but I just kept wanting to include the whole thing, so I'm just going to tell you to read it all. Ditto the Will Wilkinson post it inspired.
(Where have I been? you ask. I was covering for two people at work last week; this week, I'm still covering for one of 'em, plus I'm going on vacation next week, to sunny Mexico via Los Angeles. But I promise, I'll try to get some more material up this week.)
Posted by Jane Galt at February 23, 2004 12:11 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksIn some ways, the liberal managerialist vision may be even more attractive than the Leninist one to intellectuals, and this may have as much to do with its outlasting Leninism as the fact How about this for a teaser: "the American-liberal version of Vanguard Theory is more in touch with reality than outright socialism proved to be. Under communism, the ruling class has to do even the scut work of planning - running the factories, deciding where every box of pencils gets shipped and so on. In American managerialism, aka liberalism, the Vanguard only has to do the cool jobs. The boring stuff (to your Kennedy School type) is outsourced to Republicans..."
Absoutely brilliant!
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How about this for a teaser: "...the liberal managerialist vision may be even more attractive than the Leninist one to intellectuals, and this may have as much to do with its outlasting Leninism as the fact that the American-liberal version of Vanguard Theory is more in touch with reality than outright socialism proved to be. Under communism, the ruling class has to do even the scut work of planning - running the factories, deciding where every box of pencils gets shipped and so on. In American managerialism, aka liberalism, the Vanguard only has to do the cool jobs. The boring stuff (to your Kennedy School type) is outsourced to Republicans..."
Absolutely brilliant!
The set of people qualified by their intelligence to be academics is those who are academics and those who are smart enough to be but who choose to do other things usually involving in making more money than academics. I venture to guess that subset of the intelligent is more Republican than the all academic subset but there is also a group - I think I hear them on NPR quite often - who think they are smarter, more intellectual, than they really are. They too are over represented in the Liberal camp as far as I know.
As the good book says: "Always make sure the first piece of expert advice is to hire more experts." (Genesis 41:33)
You will, of course, allow SoCal based bloggers to eat, drink and make merry with you while you are here, right?
At the very least, we can drink and make merry. Eating is, after all, optional.
Yes, will we have at least a brief stopover in which LA fans can say howdy?
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