The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy - Michael Lewis
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Federal Government
Fifth Risk
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Incompetent Political Hacks
Michael Lewis
Required Reading
Transition Team
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Publisher’s Summary
What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?
“The election happened,” remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. “And then there was radio silence.” Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.
Michael Lewis’ brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.
Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.
If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes - unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system - those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.
The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis - 2018
By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-02-18
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: mp3 64/22.05 stereo
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 5/5
October 24th, 2018
“What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?”
hmmm - as the author references Trump and the new administration I think he missed the point. They knew how our government was working and did not want to follow the same corrupt track.
“Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.”
From what I have already read there were plenty of appointees but Trump was stalled at every opportunity by functionaries playing politics and not doing the job they were paid to do.
Oh, and WTF does food stamps and school lunches have to do with agriculture?
October 25th, 2018
Oh boy… You’re in a pickle there.
Seems you’re actually gonna have to pick up a book and find out what’s inside to get answers to your questions.
Instead of just going rah-rah for Trump, as you’re apparently used to.
Funny how that works…
You just put something up and people simply flock to profess their ignorance and moral decay.
October 25th, 2018
Actually not the first publication that documents the chaotic handover. Although in fairness to the serial bankrupt television personality, he didn’t expect to win.
October 25th, 2018
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
—Thomas Jefferson
So, it all comes down to the idea what exactly “safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society” is - and isn’t, for that matter.
“We the people” vs. “We the benevolent experts”.
For some peculiar reason, those self-anointed “benevolent experts” always tend to subtly try “to take it from them”, and not to “inform their discretion”. Which alone instantly disqualifies them as “benevolent experts”, and firmly puts them in another category:
“There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but they mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. They think there need be but little restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public interest is apt to be quite closely connected with their own exercise of authority. They may not, indeed, always understand their own motives. The love of power may sink too deep in their own hearts even for their own scrutiny, and may pass with themselves for mere patriotism and benevolence.”
—Daniel Webster, 1837
October 25th, 2018
I do not like Trump. I do not agree with a lot of what he is doing. But having listened to about half of this drivel I can only conclude that his personal hero is Lewis Caroll’s Humpty Dumpty.
October 25th, 2018
redrug3 - Humpty Dumpty was apparently a massive cannon used during the English Civil War…not sure how that connects to Trump.
I’m not a big fan of Trumpianism, but that Webster quote is superlative and apposite. Thanks for sharing it, alnilam.
Every democratic republic has to be vigilant and guard against “elite-capture” - a putative oligoi, which always knows best, based on nothing but their own prejudices and arrogance. Any notion of such permanent government is wholly inimical to democratic principles. A spurious technocracy would have an acidic effect on liberty.
October 25th, 2018
@caesar963
Correction: the credit for sharing this book goes to granular, I only wrote a comment.
October 25th, 2018
Indeed, I was actually talking about the quote itself; but I did neglect to credit granular for the upload. The quote was germane and I did want to address it specifically.
October 25th, 2018
Sorry caesar963, my mistake (a typical case of tunnel vision).
October 26th, 2018
“Trump appointees were few and far between” and yet … Imagine what could have been accomplished without the resistance
October 26th, 2018
@chrisxiii
> Imagine what could have been accomplished without the resistance
Well, why not:
Victor David Hanson - Imagine How Successful Trump’s Admin Could Be If Dem’s Stopped Obstructing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vghrd9f-Y0
October 26th, 2018
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October 26th, 2018
@LJG - Are you trying to give everyone TINNITUS?!
You’ll never get any real reform with each side engaging in internecine obstructionism.
October 29th, 2018
Thanks, excellent book.
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