Comment by Joel_Mckay

Sycophantic idealism mixed with political Brand analytical-blindness is incompatible with functional democratic processes. Verifiable facts are the core responsibility of the Scientific process, and a lot of people still fail that minimal standard.

https://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-signifi...

Modern corruption is just unsustainable populist negligence, that coincidentally also collapsed many empires in history. Suggesting Academic bureaucracy is a functional Meritocracy is naive wishful thinking, and ignores why these structures usually still degenerate to merge with poorly obfuscated despotic movements.

"Despotism" (1946)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

Have a great day, =3