Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.
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Talking Points Memo (2006-01-17)Joshua Micah Marshall
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In recent years, many men of science have come to realize that the scientific picture of the world is a partial one -- the product of their special competence in mathematics and their special incompetence to deal systematically with aesthetic and moral values, religous experiences and intuitions of significance. Unhappily, novel ideas become acceptable to the less intelligent members of society only with a very considerable time-lag. Sixty or seventy years ago the majority of scientists believed -- and the belief caused them considerable distress -- that the product of their special incompetence was identical with reality as a whole. Today this belief has begun to give way, in scientific circles, to a different and obviously truer conception of the relation between science and total experience.
Aldous Huxley
The young are really the hairs to a generation of incompetence.
Marshall McLuhan
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley Robinson
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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