Once you get an ideological bureaucracy in Washington, the more militant it becomes, the stupider it gets because it relies on groupthink and not expertise to reach decisions. Critical feedback is absent and it becomes just as blind as Putin's inner circle.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 13, 2022
You need an external POV to unstick a bogged down ideological bureaucracy the way you need holdbacks, pulleys and a recovery vehicle to get a tank out of the mud. Without real intellectual diversity a civilization can languish indefinitely.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 13, 2022