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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 13 Dec \ parent \ on: Why Does Government Always Make the Same Economic Mistakes? Politics_And_Law
They aren't generally aware of what they're doing. Most just can't really conceive that the framework handed down to them by the experts is false. They are also sure that heterodox views are deranged and probably dangerous.
I refer to this as The Cult of Respectability. The court historians and economists are confident that they're doing good science, because the important people tell them so. It literally doesn't register with them when their work proves false.
The problem is that they intentionally turn a blind eye to anything heterodox and will not even consider, it let alone investigate it. After all, what are they getting paid for?
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