Modern Government

This is a good article on the cargo cult that is today's progressive government. 

Our modernity is style rather than substance. It's Obama grinning. It's the right font. It's the right joke. It's that sense that X knows what he's doing because he presents it the right way. There's nothing particularly modern about that. In most cultures, the illusion of competence trumps the real thing. It's why so many countries are so badly broken because they go by appearances, rather than by results.

Sultan Knish

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/10/government-is-magic.html?m=1