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Written by a guy who never saw combat.

Anyway, one thing I got from the book, even if Heinlein never explicitly made this point, is that public officials need to perform some service or somehow show that they merit being our leaders. People who did poorly in intro uni economics should perhaps not be determining national economic policy, for example.



I agree, so someone who did poorly at communism and socialism studies in the former ussr should not become a factory leader or economics minister- because if a university is good at something it is determinating people who are great knowledge repeaters and aggregators, but not determinating who is a good ad-hoc manager of completely knew scenarios.

I would rather prefer pure luck to that intelectual slaughterhouse suggested by the parent, with all the fency problems a goverment would inherit in academia. I can only imagine, what would happen, if some Aspi driven towards perfectionism regarding roadtolls, would do to a transportation-ministry- to compose the perfect system.

I rather have non government then this government.




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