The Unknown Unknowns

SEE HERE The idea that the folks in Washington are really really smart people and that they will take care of us, is one of the single stupidest ideas in common vogue. The reality is that smart people are blind. Why is that? It's mostly because they think that because they know a lot that they know everything worth knowing and this leads them to make particularly stupid mistakes. Thomas Sowell talks about what amounts to intellectual humility and recognizing that there are a lot of "Unknown Unknowns" to use Donald Rumsfeld's phrase. Unintended consequences emerge form this ignorance and the current administration's blind policies are crushing the nation. We'd be better off with a lot of chimpanzees running the government than with all these "smart people."