Mediocracy is still everywhere
Ribal Dayekh
Strategic Communications and Sustainability Consultant @ DEWA | Crisis Management, Media Outreach
Mediocracy cases are numerous and cannot be counted. Mediocre pundits are omnipresent a bit like the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” of Don Siegel’s aliens movie. What is more appalling than a mediocre pundit who willed fame, representing the people, academia and society, was driven behind his insignificance and absurdity.
Many so-called “experts” harness prominent satellite channels as platforms by to broadcast absurdity. This is an affirmation of the control of petty and intruders to distort and transform the people's normal ideas to banality.
“Mediocracy” as term was cornered by the Canadian philosopher Alain Deneault. According to the Canadian philosopher everything must be standardized. The “media” has become the norm, “mediocrity” has been elected as a model.
Parliaments of insignificance were created, made up of mediocre personalities, that came through political money to legalize mediocracy.
The petty lawmakers and their election campaigns were financed by the mafia of businessmen who sucked the blood of innocent people - so all the laws issued by them justify money laundering and criminalize creativity. It became permissible to nourish insignificance,
The phenomenon implicates that the current and immediate situation in all aspects of political, social, economic and intellectual life is driven by figures who were made to be trivial, so this quality became the companion of the leadership and the control of the mediocre seemed to dominate the levers of power in many societies. Mediocre pundits, no matter how high their balance of watching and following up, have an ominous end . Their fame will disappear and their money will quickly go away, and that ridiculous content will remain a stain for life, not to mention its negative impact on the mass.
In the Arab world, the rule mediocracy has become a feature of the present age. Regimes use belly dancers to justify its policy of raising prices, and one of the reasons for the irony is that the invader has obtained the ideal mother, and she and motherhood do not meet and the contradiction is going - then we are in a system that takes the title of triviality.
Regimes summon many fraudulent doctorate holders, to address the masses through television channels. These satellite channels are used as platforms to broadcast absurdity banality and amusement.
The effect will fly the minds of adults and descend into insignificance and insanity and sow in the mud and grapple with suspicions.
The response is ready, and from where will we bring the owners of the qualifications and the respectable that they refrain, and therefore we have no alternative but the existing ones from the petty people and the makers of corruption.
Human beings have generated more data in the past few years than in all of human history combined. No one person can know everything; in fact, no one expert can even know everything about their own field.
In this era of punditry, social media and opinion pieces, it’s probably not a bad idea to remember that pundits in particular are prone to "the illusion of skill", where a little bit of expertise makes them extremely overconfident.
Psychologist Philip Tetlock, studied the phenomenon of “clairvoyant” pundits who made their living "commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends.
His study was devastating. These so called experts produced poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have distributed their choices evenly over the options. Even in the region they knew best, experts were not significantly better than non specialists.
The science fiction book “Null-P”written by Philip Klass in 1951 under the pseudonym William Tenn is a good example.
In a dystopian world destroyed by nuclear wars, an individual whose limits correspond exactly to the population average, George Abnego, is welcomed as a clairvoyant. Abnego is elected president of the United States and after him his descendants, who become the leaders of the whole new world.
With time, men become more and more standardized. The homo abnegus, named after George Abnego, replaces homo sapiens.
Humanity regresses technologically until, after a quarter of a million years, men end up being tamed by an evolved species of dogs that employ them in their favourite sport: the recovery of balls and objects. Reporting men are born.