Just say it. Men need to work

We live in the world social science created. The social sciences are meant to describe our social realities, but since at least the Progressive Era, American politics has been defined by attempts to apply their expertise to the management of society and persons as objects of scientific control. Objects of quantifiable analysis must be made fit for measurement, framed or selected by the putatively objective observer. Thus the emergence and metastasis of what is now called the administrative state, and the legion of other managerial systems public and private that make up the environment of American life. A cycle of bureaucratic responses to technological and cultural disruption creates an apparent need for the intervention of more bureaucracy and technology. Social science makes itself useful.

In such a reality, the need is obvious for leaders who combine in themselves the personal responsibility of a political representative, acting on behalf of the people in the realm of prudence and justice, with the dispassionate understanding of the complex structures that order our daily affairs. Only with such governors can the human scale, the space needed for human flourishing, be protected.