Space Force as the harbinger of political reform via an Ark Fleet Ship B policy.

Saw this headline this morning:

Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy by Glenn Reynolds

and misread it as

Trump and the crisis of the mediocracy

Without reading the column, I suspect that the latter is closer to the heart of the matter than the first headline.

A meritocracy, with suitable checks and balances, has its good points but for the past twenty years we have had institutional mediocracy verging on malicious incompetence rather than the promised meritocracy. Institutions riddled with credentialed virtue-signalers but very few effective problem-solvers or systems thinkers.

When institutions fail to distinguish between credentialed celebrity and true expertise, the concept of a meritocracy begins to look in practice a lot more like an insider mediocracy.

Perhaps we are approaching the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B moment in our global political development. Time to build Ark Fleet Ship B and load it up with deep staters, Ben Rhodes journalists, non-expert academics, postmodernists, intersectionalists, critical theory racists, third-wave feminist sexists, etc. If they'll believe in existential AGW, the threat of inequality, the superiority of socialism, the failure of free markets, college campus rape culture, the unimportance of IQ or culture, the dispensability of two parent families, etc. then they certainly will believe in the threat of being eaten by a mutant star goat.

With this train of thought, the roll out of the new Space Force logo carries heavier weight than one might otherwise think.

Space Force as the harbinger of political reform via an Ark Fleet Ship B policy. You heard it here first.