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Hoffer on Scribes and Bureaucrats - What's Wrong with the Country.
Chicago Boys Blog vis Instapundit ^ | Late 50's early 60's. | Eric Hoffer

Posted on 10/03/2017 4:37:21 AM PDT by x1stcav

Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status…The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribe’s golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes…Obviously, a high ratio between the supervisory and the productive force spells economic inefficiency. Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency.

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Worth reading as it goes a long ways toward explaining why/how the ruling class has been created to constantly erode our basic freedoms. An amazing insight into the future of the US written almost sixty years ago.
1 posted on 10/03/2017 4:37:21 AM PDT by x1stcav
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To: x1stcav

LIBERALS: Please stop killing your fellow countrymen!!


2 posted on 10/03/2017 4:42:44 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: x1stcav

Ordeal of Change? The so-called scribes, however, are now going to scribe school with an 8th Grade education, and instead of learning mathematics and engineering, and other skills that might be useful, they’re learning how to bullyrag anyone who disagrees with them, and if that fails, gang up and beat on them.


3 posted on 10/03/2017 4:45:21 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Actually, they are going to law school to learn to turn the law into a cudgel


4 posted on 10/03/2017 4:49:34 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

Good grief!
Get off YOUR ASS and STOP funding the importation of HOSTILE MUSLIMS!
Then get RID of the ones you have.

This is NOT rocket science.


5 posted on 10/03/2017 5:08:29 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: x1stcav

Thanks for posting. BUMP!


6 posted on 10/03/2017 5:10:27 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: x1stcav

Bkmrk


7 posted on 10/03/2017 5:10:39 AM PDT by BurrOh (All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~Orwell)
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We won’t see thinkers like Eric Hoffer again anytime soon...


8 posted on 10/03/2017 5:12:51 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: x1stcav

Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil! Progressive Socialist Marxist Fascist Communist Dictator Islamist Bureaucrap. All Evil.

National Death by Bureaucrap is a real and fatal disease of nations.


9 posted on 10/03/2017 5:18:18 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: x1stcav
What's wrong with the country? We've kicked God out of the public in this country.

Remove His morality and the world's morality moves in.

10 posted on 10/03/2017 5:27:02 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: x1stcav

Corrupt and evil and selfish and politically correct politicians.


11 posted on 10/03/2017 5:45:24 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: ealgeone; mulligan

OK!

I should have said one of the many things That’s wrong with the Country.


12 posted on 10/03/2017 5:49:30 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: x1stcav
Scribes - aka the L.I.F.E.R. R.E.M.F. vampira who play the cycle of state-establishing and state-destroying like a profitable, systemically corrupt, bass fiddle.

I wonder who they are?

Usually they're not very fond of having themselves scribed into the light of actual history.

Got Romans Chapter 1... man?


Not with a bang but a whimper!
200 лет вместе, man -200 лет вместе.

13 posted on 10/03/2017 5:49:36 AM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Thats fur shur ! ...LOL

However, the scribes,priests of olden times are now known as LAWYERS ! Still a source of ‘bad things and times’..Parasites on the peons..i.e. working people....

You are ruled by them and THEY make the laws concerning everything, and you must pay the bill.(Look at their exemption of THEMSELVES from the laws they make! )

Ol’ Will was right—First, kill all the lawyers !


14 posted on 10/03/2017 5:55:01 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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>>Remove His morality and the world’s morality moves in.

Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPeHO1r8paU


15 posted on 10/03/2017 5:57:08 AM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: litehaus

>>First, kill all the lawyers !

A Republic is a system of government characterized by the Rule of LAW.

It’s the corrupt purpose and lack of good character that is the problem - not the structure of the mortar and bricks that form the prison... that was a fortress and sanctuary for we, the infidels of every denomination.


16 posted on 10/03/2017 6:06:32 AM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: x1stcav

This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated!

A better description of these so called scribes: Intellectuals yet Idiots!

Our Governments, Universities/Colleges and many businesses/corporations are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media, institutions, most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.

Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.

With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.

Indeed one can see that these academica-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)

This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class


17 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, _______, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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Andrew Breitbart interview on the Frankfurt School Marxists and how they wanted to divide America to overthrow our Constitutional Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnHjmVwOM_M&list=FLLR0KZJRLxO4vVbc4-lAyjw


18 posted on 10/03/2017 6:33:47 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: x1stcav

Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency.


The “useful educated tools” should study china. The suitable positions became shoveling real manure after the Maoist revolution.


19 posted on 10/03/2017 6:33:59 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Those who were in charge, once a large majority, have thrown in the towel and resigned to leave the problem to someone else to solve. Who will step up? You were elected to solve the problem. Why don’t you?


20 posted on 10/03/2017 6:47:54 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Politics just makes us hate each other.)
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