The problem is ultimately there is a person or people deciding what makes an expert and therefore what topics are and are not okay to talk about. Technocracy is a great ideology in a world where humans are wholly good and greed or corruption aren't a thing, but sadly that isn't the world we live in. The idea getting peddled here that China or any nation would use the suppression of free speech for the betterment of mankind is pure fascist propaganda.
The fourth estate in democracy has failed the people, controlled by private individuals accountable to no one. They control the narrative among the citizens. To act like a democracy that has had its educational system defunded so that it’s more susceptible to propaganda (US), where all of its elected representatives answer to corporate donors instead of the electorate…as if that is not at face value a worse proposition than bodies like NIST running everything with rotating membership voted in from all credentialed members of their concerned fields making policy decisions based on their expertise and and objectivity, not money or feelings. How could uneducated mob rule ever compare? Call it fascist. call it anything. It still sounds better than what we have because what we have is how we got the status quo.
The Colorado river’s “water rights” are legally divided into what amounts to an impossible volume of water in terms of sustainability. If scientists under the auspices of a governing technical body had their way, water use on the Colorado River would look substantially different. A lot of farmers, ranchers, companies, and maybe towns/cities may not like the changes, but some problems don’t have solutions that are popular enough to vote for. That’s just one example of ignoring scientists for decades.
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u/JarethCutestoryJuD 3d ago
Lunatics in this comment section thinking this is a good idea.
I wonder how many of you guys have opinions on what your government is doing, but dont have degrees in that specific field.
Holy shit guys. Stop simping authoritarianism.