Comment by gsf_emergency_6

The cultural chasm between technocrats and politicians reminds me of the old trope about "women are from Venus and men are from Mars". That hasn't been bridged either, has it? It's a bit like those taboo topics here on HN where no good questions can be entertained by otherwise normal adults.

Here's something from someone we might call a manchild

For I approach deep problems like cold baths: quickly into them and quickly out again. That one does not get to the depths that way, not deep enough down, is the superstition of those afraid of the water, the enemies of cold water; they speak without experience. The freezing cold makes one swift.

Lichtenberg has something along these lines too, but I'll need to dig that out :)

Here's a consolation that almost predicts Alan Watts:

To make clever people [elites?] believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.