Writing about the weak leadership the Labor Party is giving the United Kingdom, but similarly applicable elsewhere, see what the editor of sp!ked concludes about modern society.
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years about Peter Turchin’s concept of ‘elite overproduction’, and the tendency of contemporary Western societies, funnelling ever-more kids through higher education, to produce more would-be members of the ruling class than can possibly be absorbed into the ruling class.
But for me, the more pressing failing seems to be quality control. Just look at the supposed, would-be rulers we are (over)producing. Even those who make it to the top are bereft not just of intellectual seriousness, but of basic common sense, too.
