{"id":180131,"date":"2017-07-13T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/13\/quote-of-the-day-58\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:19:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/13\/quote-of-the-day-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">What centrists are missing is that elites have too much power and too little competence.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com\/stumbling_and_mumbling\/2017\/07\/the-centrist-crisis.html\">Chris Dillow<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Dillow is noting that the Blairites have missed the reality, that their base, the highly paid managerial class is not particularly good at their jobs, and so are grossly overpaid, which costs the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very specific critique that nicely frames the complete intellectual bankruptcy of the Blairites, because it is predicated on ignoring that, &#8220;Parasitic managerialism caused the financial crisis, greatly <a href=\"http:\/\/stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com\/stumbling_and_mumbling\/2017\/02\/neoliberalism-productivity.html\">contributed<\/a> to the productivity slowdown and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n02\/stefan-collini\/who-are-the-spongers-now\">now<\/a> wreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/jul\/07\/tuition-fees-should-be-scrapped-says-architect-of-fees-andrew-adonis\">damage<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/teessideprofs.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/10\/first-blog-post\/#more-4\">universities<\/a>. New Labour\u2019s fetishizing of \u201cleadership\u201d and targets helped to legitimate this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What centrists are missing is that elites have too much power and too little competence. \u2014Chris Dillow Mr. Dillow is noting that the Blairites have missed the reality, that their base, the highly paid managerial class is not particularly good at their jobs, and so are grossly overpaid, which costs the rest of us. It&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,464,504,374],"class_list":["post-180131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-good-writing","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}