30.01.2014 - 01:36 [ sicherheits politik-blog ]

Trust me, I’m an expert

So these are the new experts, and their short time and long status implies that they’re more valuable for their ability make their advice stick than to come up with good*** advice. And they’re not interested in becoming an Internet government, which would imply more or less clear relations of authority and submission, but just in contributing to governance, which also consists of rules, but we agree not to ask about the who’s doing the ruling. Government requires rulers; governance gets by fine with experts. And how do you get that status? How do you get to shape governance? The best answer comes perhaps from Damon Runyon, paraphrasing Ecclesiastes 9:11