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WELL, I PREDICTED THE ?UNGOVERNABLE AMERICA? MEME, but Arnold Kling has some deeper thoughts. ?The ?

By Glenn Reynolds

WELL, I PREDICTED THE “UNGOVERNABLE AMERICA” MEME, but Arnold Kling has some deeper thoughts. “The theory is that there is a discrepancy between trends in knowledge and power. Power in the United States is remarkably concentrated. We are creating increasingly specialized knowledge, which means that the information needed to make good decisions is located outside of Washington, D.C. And yet we have a central government attempting to do for 300 million people what governments in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Switzerland do for many fewer people.” I also think that the people governing us have become objectively dumber over the last 50 years or so.

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