The will to power of the nerds

The will to power of the nerds is a better translation of the "managerial revolution" than "the revenge of the nerds." Yes, revenge might have been involved due to, say, bullying in high school by star football players, but the deeper motivation was the will to power of the nerds.

As Jack Trotter more or less pointed out in "Chronicles," the nerds attained power by shoving aside traditional meritocracies which cared at least as much about what was good for the people and the nation and as they did about efficiency and profits. The nerds had also absorbed modern liberalism and cultural Marxism in the humanities departments of the elite colleges and universities they attended, and so when they weren't looking at their clipboards they were talking about how all rowdy bullies need to disappear in a vast bureaucracy of equality. ( I might add that President Trump is no nerd which must relate to why the managerial nerds hate him so much.)

This does not mean that democracies should not consult with experts. In our increasingly complex world we should have more scientists (sociobiologists would be my preference) in congress and fewer lawyers who now make up the vast majority, as Cattell once suggested. We need people who can look beyond the narrow confines of efficiency and profits, which has given us global corporations and political empires managed by power-desiring nerds who have been destroying the West, with no feeling of patriotism.

Now we have nerds pushing for the dominance of artificial intelligence which they will of course control, preferring the evolution of computers to the evolution of nasty patriotic humans.