Off-Topic: It's getting even worse
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MartiniMan
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It's getting even worse
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9/1/2021 2:35:26 PM (updated 9/1/2021 2:55:54 PM)
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I read an article that described the current leadership at the State Dept as meta-ignorance, better known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which I had to look up. Here's a good definition: The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities. Or put more succinctly, fools are blind to their own foolishness. Learn something new every day.
The even sadder part is that Never-Trumpism caused them to cancel the Crisis & Contingency Response bureau in the State Dept which was formed to respond to exactly these kind of emergency issues without all the bureaucratic hurdles to getting something done. Their head recently resigned because of Blinken's decision.
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