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"Elite Credentials" Has Become Oxy (and-just-plain) Moronic

The creation of new books has done more to destroy knowledge's advancement than burning books.  This becomes obvious when one read's today's political commentary. Ezra Klein and many others have sought to defend elitism - what they mean by elitism is rule by the elite.  How does one define elite?  Simple - credentials.  If you have the right degrees, then you are elite.   Yet rule by the elite is not a novel issue.  It's been tried before - in the United States and many times.   It failed.  Does anyone remember the Vietnam War?  How could the Vietnam War have gone so badly?  It went badly for the same reason the Iraq War went badly - namely, the elites ran it: The Best and the Brightest (1972) is an account by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).