Thank you very much for your comment. I try to answer your objections:
Elites are an inevitable fact of civilized life. Like other silenced topics (tradionally sex), the more you hide it, the worse it becomes. Moreover, I agree with the Ash and the rest of the Palladium crowd: an overworked and overspecialized elite is quite dangerous.
Lately I have heard a good deal of LibriVox audiobooks on history (Hume’s History of England, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Guizot’s History of France, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America) and literary works (Don Quijote, Eneid, Iliad and Odissey), and other material that was part of the classical western education. I understand how that education was able to create a cohesive and somewhat high minded elite (also brutal and endogrupally oriented of course, of course). We have lost important capabilities with the replacement of the West traditional elites.
Regarding the sustainability-effectiveness relation, I can create counterexamples of non sustainable and effective interventions, but for the majority of practical cases, sustainability is a necessary condition for effectiveness (and a detailed discussion on the topic would be tiring).
This post hit at a good topic and gave it good nuance, minus the part about “society lead by the elite” and “self obvious statements”
Dear Yellow,
Thank you very much for your comment. I try to answer your objections:
Elites are an inevitable fact of civilized life. Like other silenced topics (tradionally sex), the more you hide it, the worse it becomes. Moreover, I agree with the Ash and the rest of the Palladium crowd: an overworked and overspecialized elite is quite dangerous.
Lately I have heard a good deal of LibriVox audiobooks on history (Hume’s History of England, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Guizot’s History of France, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America) and literary works (Don Quijote, Eneid, Iliad and Odissey), and other material that was part of the classical western education. I understand how that education was able to create a cohesive and somewhat high minded elite (also brutal and endogrupally oriented of course, of course). We have lost important capabilities with the replacement of the West traditional elites.
Regarding the sustainability-effectiveness relation, I can create counterexamples of non sustainable and effective interventions, but for the majority of practical cases, sustainability is a necessary condition for effectiveness (and a detailed discussion on the topic would be tiring).