[Music] ever wonder why things are the way they are in America welcome to the Beck story my podcast on how our past informs our present charts our future how did we get here the first season is about the cult of expertise in America how it permeated our government how this allegiance to so-called expertise has far reached implications for our nation right now A remarkably consistent through line extends from the original Progressive Movement right through to the actions of left-wing Elites today how many times lately have you heard well do you have a doctorate in that oh are you an expert oh you must be a scientist no I’m not any of those things I am somebody who’s a a reasonable thinking American I have a right to question and I also have a responsibility to be involved in all of the decisions that now seem to be being made for me so how did we get here how many times in the past few years have you heard some version of this health experts say your time might be running out experts say it’s happening well experts health experts say some experts experts follow the science follow the science be driven by science listen to The Scientist but if we now have access to so many experts and so much science why is it that everything seems to be breaking down and basic common sense is gone answer expertise killed it every day now decisions are being made by a class of experts that have a direct bearing on your life and the future of not only your nation but the world and no one is asking you about any of it as the world learned in 2020 expertise untethered from humanity and combined with a cult-like Devotion to the science end quote can have disastrous far-reaching consequences but again how did we get to this point that’s the journey I want to take you one this season how the experts Rose to such power how they wielded that power and how America is now struggling with the Fallout Our Story begins with Louise Marie Taylor she had traveled all over Europe numerous times but she had never seen a lavish spectacle quite like the one that GRE feed her in Rome in 1927 Lou as her family called her was in Rome for the third International Management Congress the pageantry and the crowds surrounding the conference demonstrated the power of her late husband’s Legacy Frederick W Taylor he’d been dead now for 12 years but he was a legend in the field known then as Scientific Management a field that he basically invented in more ways than one Frederick Taylor’s most famous book called The Principles of Scientific Management was first translated into Italian in 1915 the year Taylor died just 11 years later Italian bureaucrats were so taken with Taylor’s principles that they created a government agency to promote scientific management at the closing ceremony of the conference banners Flags soldiers all provided a Regal atmosphere in the Italian Senate chamber Lou was moved when a photo of Frederick her husband was projected on a big screen then the leader of the conference Rose to speak and gave a full throated endorsement of scientific management and the crowd roared with approval after the closing ceremony blue received a special invitation from the revered conference leader to his private office he was eager to present Lou with a photo of himself in an exchange for a photo of her husband Frederick Taylor whom he said was a great man and had revolutionized management L thank the man who happened to be a little bit more than just the Italian leader of the management conference in fact he was the new leader of everything in Italy he was Bonito musolini what is an expert some expert Witnesses point out we turn to the experts on Experts agree that if nothing is done do we really think experts are jumping in and helping people make great decisions I don’t think so when you learned about the Progressive Era in history class it probably went something like this the progressives are big-hearted heroes who cared for the Common Man they used government to fight for the poor for children for women and immigrants battling all the terrible things that they had suffered at the hands of evil industrial capitalists right this reform Obsession that came to be known as progressivism was not an overnight sensation it was a slow burn roughly the 1890s to the end of World War I in 1918 and some of the reforms that progressives brought about were good things like basic safety and sanitary standards for America’s Food and Drugs no one’s going around today saying gee I wish we still had kindergarteners working on the factory floor but overall America’s history textbooks don’t tell you the whole story about progressivism or frankly anything they fail to mention how a cult of expertise developed among progressives and how these experts took a sledgehammer to our constitutional system of government and we’re still feeling the effects today in 1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor was born into a wealthy family in Philadelphia when he was 12 he spent 3 years touring around Europe with his family at a time when no one outside of the wealthiest Americans did such a thing when he was 16 Taylor attended Philips exitor Academy in New Hampshire an elite boarding school for America’s wealthy young men 2 years later he passed the Harvard entrance exam with honors then horrified his parents by deciding not to attend Harvard he hung out at his parents Philadelphia Mansion for several months until his father finally helped Taylor get an apprenticeship at a machine shop called the Enterprise hydraulic works there Taylor learned to cuss like a commoner and work with his hands he he had a genuine knack for engineering and design in fact he eventually owned several patents including tennis racket and golf club designs Taylor would always use his apprenticeship as a badge of honor having rubbed shoulders with the common folk gave him some sort of street cred but Taylor was always an elite he never shed that part of himself and the major difference between he and the regular men that he apprenticed under was that ultimately he didn’t need the job he had a safety net after his apprenticeship he pleased his parents by completing an engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey he then got a job at milvale Steel Company in Philadelphia and it was there that he discovered the Knack that would make him famous The Knack for telling people how to do their jobs better at Midville Taylor observed inefficiency through the company including what he believed to be employees working slowly on purpose Taylor soon fell in love with a stopwatch and then began doing time studies each step of the manufacturing process he then corrected the workers dictating the best technique that they should follow in performing their job oh he must have been mighty popular detailed performance standards were put in place for all of the areas of the operation he moved moved equipment around and meticulously streamlined everything through these efficiency audits he was able to enhance a company’s productivity and cut costs he essentially invented management consulting here’s how historian Jill leapor described what Taylor did quote he’d get himself hired by some business spend a while watching people work stopwatch and slide rule in hand write a report telling them how to do their work faster and then submit an astronomical bill for his Services end quote he called it science and since no one had really done it before no one really argued with him about how scientific it actually was his favorite example which he talked about in his book and countless lectures was his 1899 pig iron study at Bethlehem Steel company in Pennsylvania pig iron was part of the steel making process in which iron ore was SM melted and then poured into molds when the iron cooled you can have individual planks of iron that were later used as raw material for producing steel Taylor loved to tell the story about how his efficiency science got a man named Henry null who he referred to as Schmidt in his book to work harder than everyone else when it came to the job of moving pig iron the legend as Taylor always told it was that he got Henry null to prove that but a man could move 47 1/2 tons of pig iron per day instead of 12 1/2 tons how did Taylor’s science come up with 472 tons as the standard well he picked 10 men he challenged them to load 16 1/2 tons as fast as they could they did it in 14 minutes so at that rate over a 10hour day that equaled about 71 tons per man but then he knocked that number numbered down to 472 tons based on his guesstimate of what he called the law of heavy laboring but only Henry null was ever able to get close to 472 tons per day and he certainly didn’t reach the number every day was that really science well apparently it was if you just kept saying science over and over and if you saved your client some money in the process you can really see Taylor’s elitism shining through as he discusses the pig iron job in his book quote this work is so crude and Elementary in its nature that the writer firmly believes that it would be possible to train an intelligent gorilla so as to become a more efficient pig iron Handler than any man can be yet it will be shown that the science of handling pig iron is so great and amounts to so much that it is impossible for the man who is best suited to this type of work to understand the principles of this science or even to work in accordance with these principles without the aid of a man better educated than he is unfortunately he goes on quote now one of the very first requirements for a man who is fit to handle pig iron it’s a regular occupation is that he shall be so stupid and so fmatic that he more nearly resembles in his mental makeup the ox than any other type he is so stupid that the word percentage has no meaning to him and he must consequently be trained by a man more intelligent than himself into the habit of working in accordance with the laws of this science before he can be successful here is the progressive hero Narrative of experts in action poor Schmidt had no chance on his own but with rules and prodding by expert overseers he can rise above his station Taylor’s audiences Aid up the Schmidt story never mind the fact that Taylor described the workers he was supposedly helping as stupid gorillas and oxen he was merely doing science as America would find out elitism usually goes hand inand with progressivism Frederick Taylor considered himself a progressive but he wasn’t much of a political activist during most of his career politics and state power were not his passions yet he had basically stumbled on to the Holy Grail that would make him a hero and a saint to American progressive elite he synthesized the spirit of the Progressive Era he lived in he codified what Progressive leaders were instinctively building but just hadn’t branded it yet it was the idea that we should put experts in charge of all aspects of life and life would improve for everyone Taylor said quote in our scheme we do not ask the initiative of our men we do not want any initiative all we want of them is to obey the orders we give them do what we say and do it quick perhaps nothing made Taylor more Progressive than the fact he was so in love with his own ideas in his book he said Scientific Management should be applied across all of society quote the same principles can be applied with equal force to all social activities to the management of our homes the management of our Farms the management of the business of our Tradesmen large and small of our churches our philanthropic institutions our universities and our governmental departments this would become music to Progressive ears Taylor’s concept of Scientific Management gave power mad progressives the perfect label and Tool they needed if you could transform a complex business through careful study and planning and dictated change imagine what could be done by using those same techniques on government and Society now progressivism had a ifying rallying cry Taylor was the Moses for them coming down from the mountain with a new set of Commandments and giving them even more justification to take charge because now science was on their side and you can’t argue with science Progressive leaders took Taylor’s concept and married it with political power but it would take another Progressive Titan someone that the left still worships today to take Taylor’s ideas about the importance of experts and make them go [Music] viral a century ago as we’re now learning we witnessed the dawn of the expert class in this country the consolidation of power into a few hands was something the founders tried to avoid but we had progressivism woodro Wilson he brought it all crashing back into our lives and in one of the most latent efforts of all time trying to Stamp Out individualism and freedom we’re doing it again and that means the freedom to have the opportunity to take your destiny in your own hands it’s something that I believe in and if you’re listening to this podcast I believe you are too and it’s something that Jace medical believes in as well they’re proud partner in bringing this together and I’m happy to have them on board they understand the way you and I do that you need to be able to make decisions for yourself and your family you need to be as self-reliant as possible and they’re providing some of the most vital life-saving medications medications that the experts wouldn’t want you to be in charge with medicines because of the experts in charge might not be easy to get in the coming months and years and they’ll make sure you’re prepared for anything with a Year’s worth of whatever medicine you have to take every day I encourage you to check out jal.com and prepare yourself and your family I’m no expert but I use Jace medical Lou brandise he was one of those guys you didn’t want to get into a debate with you know kind of like Elon Musk you’re certain to lose the son of a secular Jewish immigrant from Prague brandise was born in Louisville Kentucky and mostly grew up there he was incredibly smart and ambitious graduating from Harvard Law School when he was 20 years old with the highest grades in the school’s history at the time in 1879 brandise started a law firm in Boston with a friend from Harvard and soon their practice was so profitable that brandise started taking on select cases for free cases that furthered his Progressive ideals for brandise that included advancing the idea of rule by experts this speaks volumes about Brandy’s philosophy among his papers a note was once found that he had written himself which said quote advise client on what he should have not what he wants that could practically be the progressive motto in our history textbooks a 1908 Supreme Court case Müller versus Oregon is often cited as an example of superhero progressivism at work before this case the Supreme Court had considered it a right of employers and employees to establish a work contract without interference from the state brandise would change that this case demonstrated Brandy’s passion for rule by experts he defended the state of Oregon in front of the Supreme Court packing his brief with over 100 pages of research and supposed science backing up his theory that women working long hours was quote dangerous to the public health safety morals and Welfare this Progressive argued that the state was correct to restrict work hours for women rather than allowing employers and employees to set up their own work Arrangement brand I won the case as he usually did and he’s been hailed as a hero ever since for his brandise briefs judicial historian Steven poers wrote quote the so-called brandise brief became a model for Progressive litigation he says the Hallmark of this approach is quote its disregard for common law Juris Prudence in favor of faith in a Juris Prudence that takes into account social and historical realities because of cases like Müller versus Oregon brandise gained a saintly reputation on the left as the people’s la lawyer in 1910 he got another big opportunity to stand up for the people this time in a hearing before the interstate commer commission the IC was an early product of progressivism it was established in 1887 to regulate the railroad industry it was the first regulatory Authority Commission in US history brandise was brought in by the trade Association of the Atlantic seab board to make an argument for for why railroad companies should not be approved to increase their rates he dug in preparing one of his Famous Brand briefs and that is when he stumbled onto the glories of Frederick Taylor’s Scientific [Music] Management brand I traveled to Philadelphia and met with Taylor in person to glean everything he could about the amazing new science he also met with Taylor’s Associates in true Progressive expert style Taylor was extremely protective of his Scientific Management Concepts only he could certify official Scientific Management experts according to him there were only five other authorized experts in the world and they all happened to work for him after learning everything he could about Taylor’s scientific management brandise was enthralled writing quote of all the social and economic movements with which I have been connected none seemed to me to be more equal in its importance and hopefulness brandise felt he held the key to a glorious Progressive future and that key was experts in charge just like Taylor hovering over his stopwatch and charts to reconfigure every Department of a steel company brandise could see experts reconfiguring every aspect of America’s messy Society Brandy said quote efficiency is the hope of democracy in October 1910 before heading to DC for the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing brandise held a meeting in New York City with some of Taylor’s Associates among the attendees were Frank and Lillian Gilbreth who later would become famous in the book Cheaper by the Dozen which was written by two of their children yes they really did have 12 kids and if you read the book or seen the 1950s movie you recall that it’s about these eccentric parents who try to run their chaotic household with strict efficiency rules the Gil breaths were all about studying human motion to eliminate inefficiencies in everything from factory work to household tasks at that meeting brandise had everyone help him settle in on an official title for this efficiency management by expert system they decided to call it Scientific Management Taylor who was not at the meeting had used the term before so he was sure to approve their choice and of course using the word scientific was the key ingredient at the ICC hearing brandise built his case trying to demonstrate how evil capitalist railroads had no clue as to how they arrived at their crazy high rates and therefore were not justified and raising them even more he built up to his you can’t handle the truth moment when he questioned the VP of a New York Railroad company named Charles Daly Daly admitted setting their prices was based on judgment so brandise asked him for details on exactly how he made that judgment the basis of my judgment is exactly the same as the basis of a man who knows how to play a good game of golf it comes from practice contact and experience with the particular subject at issue then brandise said I want to know Mr Daly just as clearly as you can state it whether you can give a single reason based on anything more than your arbitrary judgment as you have expressed it none whatever replied Dy none whatever none whatever Frank Gilbreth the Cheaper by the Dozen dad was a star witness for brandise Gilbreth put on a show Mesmerizing the Commissioners when he used a stack of law books to demonstrate the bricklaying efficiency techniques he had developed using the new science of motion study when Gilbreth was done with his show one of the commissioner said this has become a sort of substitute religion with you yes sir sir responded gilbreath with enthusiasm the commissioner had no idea how preent he was comparing this to a religion the other thing that made brandise an activist lawyer who was way ahead of his time was his genius at controlling narrative at one point in the hearings he made a startling claim that Scientific Management would save the railroads $1 million a day he knew that figure would turn heads the next morning the New York Times headline read roads could save $1 million a day brandise says Scientific Management would do it calls rate increases [Music] unnecessary well similar headlines like that ran all across the nation and it was a brilliant PR coup brandise had no real way to back up the million dollars a day claim but it didn’t matter reporters had never heard of Scientific Management for and they were mesmerized that dollar figure struck in the Public’s mind brandise won as usual railroads were denied their rate height it was like taking candy from a baby all you had to do was invoke scientific management but brandise wasn’t just some clever con man he actually believed what he was preaching and he was just getting started Frederick Taylor he became an overnight star his Scientific Management spread like wildfire brandise hooked him up with a glowing profile in the American Magazine written by Uber Progressive journalist Ray Stannard Baker the same issue also serialized Taylor’s book The Principles of Scientific Management which came out just in time to ride the public wave the magazine issue was titled the gospel of efficiency a new science of business management in his profile of Taylor Baker wrote quote from the very first young Taylor with his early home environment in a reform atmosphere and his natural Democratic instincts was impressed with the deplorable conditions of industry and the heartlessness which characterized nearly all industrial operations it was as natural as sunlight for him to inquire how can I change these things Mr Taylor is a man of wide cultivation of varied interest and of personal charm he has a lively and Progressive mind seizing eagerly upon the problems of the day as would be the case with many leading progressives they often revealed their true colors maybe Baker missed the part in Taylor’s book when he described the common laborer as quote too stupid properly to train himself but that kind of rhetoric didn’t matter because with the progressive cause the ends justifies the means one biographer stated that Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management book was quote above all a reformed track a progressive Manifesto regardless of whether Taylor actually considered did that many Progressive activists did Louis brandise raved that quote the coming science of management in this Century marks an advance comparable only to that made by the coming of the machine in the last nothing captured progressivism quite like Scientific Management here was a bulletproof form of improved control you couldn’t AR argue that it wasn’t better for you because it was based on science more than a century later progressives are still using this science argument and that’s why in my first inaugural address I vowed to return science to its rightful place follow the scientist in the science we have seen a pattern with this Administration which is they don’t believe in science the science is settled science science science and science on almost every subject that you can name science is the answer the science determines what is the correct answer to a particular question armed with this magic new rhetorical device it was time for Progressive operatives to do what Taylor’s book dictated apply Scientific Management to basically everything but especially government a little over a year after Taylor’s book came out Louie brandise met his ideological twin woodro Wilson they met just after the Democratic party nominated Wilson for President Wilson the former president of Princeton and governor of New Jersey at the time of his nomination was instantly captivated by Brandy’s intellect Wilson biographer a Scott Berg wrote that brandise quote as much as anyone would shape the future of woodro Wilson ‘s campaign and career brandise and Wilson a perfect match two self-styled experts a Harvard man and a Princeton man like-minded about the problem facing America they both thought America had outgrown the Constitution an editorial in the new Republic magazine perfectly captured this Progressive mindset quote the business of politics have become too complex to be left to the pretentious misunderstandings of the benevolent amateur Ray Stannard Baker the guy brandise got to write that glowing feature about Frederick Taylor called for a quote new aristocracy which must appear in America if our inefficient and halting political democracy is ever to develop into a true democracy that higher and finer sort of aristocracy based upon a scientific and artistic Outlook and inspired by an intense enthusiasm for human progress brandise and Wilson believed the situation required experts to fix it they nominated themselves to do it Wilson was the first president to have a PhD and progressives were beside themselves about it the left’s charge against every nonprogressive president since Wilson has been that they’re just dumb when Wilson was president of Princeton he gave a speech titled our elastic Constitution that really should have been a warning sign to America but progressives saw it as a virtue Wilson and brandise helped institutionalize this notion of a living Constitution Wilson was the very first president to ever disparage the Constitution and the separation of powers which he considered an outdated barrier to his agenda he thought it was time for America to evolve beyond the Constitution he was a fanboy of the British parliamentary system and desired to see the US convert to a British style setup Wilson said quote each generation must form its own conception of what Liberty is we are not bound to adhere to the doctrines held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence we are as free as they were to make and unmake governments every 4th of July should be a time for examining what forms of power we think most likely to affect our safety and happiness Brandy and Wilson had big plans for America which they dubbed the New Freedom during the 1912 presidential campaign but when Wilson won the election the reality was that he still had to work within the Constitutional system for the time being so they needed willing allies in Congress to carry out their Progressive bidding you know the field of medicine didn’t use to draw a distinction between itself and what we would Now call holistic remedies it was just the field of medicine some things worked better than others and that’s it but then of course came the experts they insisted on things being done in a certain way which meant that a lot of the good treatments for things that we all had taken or our grandparents had done that really did work went by the wayside relief factor is one of our sponsors and partners on this program relief Factor doesn’t work that way because the people who make it realize something the experts really don’t fighting pain is almost always about helping your body heal itself with natural healing supplements that are actually effective I know because I take relief Factor every single day if you’re suffering from Pain may I recommend that you try relief Factor just try their three-week trial pack like I said before I’m no expert on this but this has worked for me give it a try relief factor.com have you ever heard of Robert laet if you live in Wisconsin you probably have when you see a photo of Senator Robert laet one aspects make him stand out from almost every other politician of his era his full-on gravity defying righteous Mane of hair which totally fit the man who became known as fighting Bob Theodore Roosevelt Progressive himself called lafallet an extremist with a touch of fanaticism and that’s coming from the guy who started the Progressive Party [Music] the way Robert lafolet told it his own party turned him into a rebel fighter he was a republican from Wisconsin with a law practice in Madison in 1890 he claimed that Wisconsin US senator felus Sawyer a fellow Republican offered to bribe him if he would influence a court case involving Sawyer the judge in the case happened to be lafollette’s brother-in-law lafallet said he refused the bribe and is out rage set him on a war path against corruption in his own party it also put him on the outs with Wisconsin Republicans he stuck with his party but became the leader of the progressive wing and rallied a coalition that got him elected governor in Wisconsin in 1900 as Governor La folette was an early Pioneer of the progressive obsession with experts one of his co- pioneers of the strategy was Richard T Eli a University of Wisconsin Professor who had major influence on a young Woodrow Wilson years earlier when Wilson was his student at John Hopkins University La falet in partnership with the University of Wisconsin established the legislative reference Bureau in which professors and other experts provided guidance to lawmakers and actually drafted legislation for them in 1905 Wisconsin’s legisl elected laet to the US Senate within a few years he established himself as the leader of the progressive Republicans in the Senate who were often called insurgents the American Magazine published a glowing 10-part series on laet titled an autobiography of an Insurgent his co-writer was Ray Stannard Baker you remember him the guy who would go on to write that puff piece on Frederick Taylor and scientific management in 1909 lafallet called the insurgents together to divvy up the work of pushing Progressive reforms through the Senate their biggest reform was the 17th Amendment and it allowed for the direct election of US senators the insurgents thought they were improving democracy by empowering voters but clearly it was a massive tilting of the playing field away from the states and towards bigger more destructive Federal power in 2010 the late Supreme Court Justice Anin Scalia said that through the 17th Amendment quote you can trace the decline of so-called state rights throughout the rest of the 20th century end quote the 17th amendment was a seismic win for progressivism the fighting Bob he was fast becoming a progressive icon he started a magazine to promote Progressive ideas called La fetes weekly it’s now called the progressive and it’s still running today shortly after Louis brandis’s Scientific Management show at the ICC hearings laet brought his fellow insurgents together for a meeting where they formed the national Progressive Republican League historian William Murphy described the league as quote a b old effort by a group of Republican reformers to seize control of their party and transform it into a party of progressivism end quote ultimately woodro Wilson solved the Republican party’s Progressive Insurgency Problem by making progressivism dominant in the Democratic party and when Wilson took office he and brandise had no bigger Champion for their New Freedom agenda than Robert laat [Music] one historian stated quote woodro Wilson was the first president to develop systematically the legislative powers of his office the Constitution does not give the president any legislative powers but surely the founders meant to make an exception for the President right I mean if he has a PHD Louis brandise became Wilson’s Chief e economic adviser Wilson wanted to give brandise a cabinet position but there was strong public push back because of brandice’s radicalism so he remained just an adviser in that role brandise was one of the chief architects of both the Federal Reserve Act and the new Federal Trade Commission the Federal Reserve was absolutely transformational it created 12 Regional Reserve Banks controlled by the Federal Reserve board naturally board members were appointed by the president but this government monolith would have power to adjust the interest rate regulate Banks and control the nation’s money supply just weeks before Wilson took office the 16th Amendment was ratified allowing federal income tax Wilson then signed in the first peacetime federal income tax law in US history and the only Republican senator to vote for it was Robert La folette Wilson considered it his duty and right to lead Congress by the nose to accomplish his agenda he forced himself on Congress more than any other previous president he was the first since John Adams to give a state of the union speech in person before Congress most previous presidents rarely visited the capital building but Wilson used an office in the capital as often as three times a week to Strongarm the legislative process Wilson had barely been in office for a year when one journalist remarked quote the vital fact in any president American politics is the enormous control if not ascendency which President Wilson is exerting over Congress Republican senator Albert cumins of Iowa told his Senate colleagues quote the influence which has been exerted by the president upon members of Congress an influence so persistent and determined that it became coercive is known to every intelligent citizen of the United States it ought to humiliate us all somewhat when we look around and find that the people generally not only understand the surrender of our rights and privileges but observe it with a certain degree of satis faction besides dominating Congress Wilson also signed over 1,800 executive orders that’s the second most of any president of all time behind FDR remember Wilson had two terms FDR had four this was the expert at work this was scientific management at work after all he was a doctor and doctors know best here’s how Princeton historian Thomas Leonard summed up Wilson’s radical first term in office quote by March 1917 the fourth branch of government was established fourth Branch describes the independent government agencies staffed and advised by experts which though nominally inside the executive branch were chartered specifically to be free of political influence employing a permanent Civil Service rather than political appointees these experts represented themselves as objective scientists above the political Fray administering progress for the good of all how’s that working out for us this was the birth of what many conservatives mean when they refer to the Deep state a vast bureaucracy of unelected experts creating policies that have the force of law because they’re under the executive branch to Wilson and brandise consolidating power under the executive was the Natural Evolution required for efficiency to them the Constitution’s separation of powers was for a bygone era true progress required more concentrated power near the end of Wilson’s first term he awarded brandise for all of his transformative work with the Supreme Court nomination the only Senator consulted before Wilson announced his nominee was who else Robert laet Wilson needed to know he could count on Progressive Republican votes to confirm brandise fighting Bob assured him oh yes you’ll have the votes not everyone was so enthusiastic about Brandy’s nomination however former president Taft pulled zero punches saying that brandise was quote a muckraker an emotionalist for his own purposes a socialist prompted by jealousy a hypocrite a man of infinite cunning of great tenacity of purpose and in my judgment of much power for evil this nomination is one of the deepest wounds that I have ever had as an American and a lover of the Constitution in the end lafallet voted yes even though he only got two other Progressive Republicans to join him Lewis brandise was on the highest court in the land now he could really give the living Constitution a run that would long Outlast him now progressives had hardcore Disciples of the Gospel of expertise in key leadership roles in all three branches of government Progressive dreams were coming true and yet there was still so much to be done the experts in our society helped bring about some of the modern Miracles we’ve experienced in technology no doubt but they’ve also helped usher in modern Horrors at the dawn of the 20th century as mankind was Raising its hackles in nations were slowly preparing to go to war with each other in what would be the bloodiest war in history until its sequel while all of that was going on the experts in the medical field they were raising their ugly heads as well they were the experts the doctors that you could trust and they were promoting Eugenics the systematic weeding out of undesirable human beings because their lives and their rights weren’t that important because they stood in the way of progress they didn’t have a life that’s worth living our experts today yval Harari is one of them says by 2030 there will be millions of useless people maybe we should learn from the past this podcast today is uh a pilot and we’re watching the metrics to see if you connect with it if you want more let us know but in one of our upcoming episodes if if it indeed goes well and you like this podcast will be about Eugenics and the experts in medicine tragically the brainchild of that historic evil is embedded in our society to this day it’s practiced every time in expecting mother walks into a clinic and allows a doctor an expert to destroy her unborn child progress is progress don’t you know I want to thank one of our partners on founding this particular podcast it’s pre-born they combat this evil every day please go to preborn domcom and join the battle to fight against the sadistic experts save a mother and their child do it today pre-born [Music] dcom written on Frederick Taylor’s tombstone in Philadelphia are the words father of Scientific Management so much for Taylor’s science cuz it really wasn’t science at all Taylor’s biographer Robert canagel put it like this quote his scientific time studies weren’t very scientific he had left a legacy not of Harmony but of turmoil yet these elements of the story would in his telling and retelling recede into the dark corner of the stage meanwhile bathed in the flood light would be another version close enough to the events to be true yet sufficiently rearranged and reconstituted to be seen with equal justice as the product of Taylor’s art all of this would become the stuff of story myth and drama according to historian Jill leapor quote Taylor fudged his data lied to his clients and inflated his record of success an analysis of Taylor’s work by two historians in the 1970s concluded quote a careful study of Taylor’s published accounts of the story about his 1899 pig iron study his biography his papers all reveal Taylor’s story to be more fiction than fact yet none of that mattered to Progressive leaders because Taylor’s art helped legitimize their Cult of expertise Harvard was finally convinced to open its business school by a man who want wanted to model it on Taylor’s Scientific Management Taylor delivered a lecture series there every year until his death many other universities soon followed suit Elite universities would become America’s factories that churned out experts to run everything oh and do you remember Frank gilbreath the Cheaper by the Dozen dad he helped start the society for the promotion of the science of management which which was later renamed the Taylor Society during the 1920s the Taylor Society was an incubator for future new dealers and members of FDR’s so-called Brain Trust in the introduction to the Principles of Scientific Management Taylor said quote in the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first but what happens when you carry that system too far musolini was a devoted man of scientific management but so was Lenin who read Taylor’s books created a Soviet Council for scientific management and insisted that the Taylor system be taught and Incorporated across Russian territory and what happens when the scientific management system is supreme and it merges with technology and artificial intelligence all you would have to do is watch what’s unfolding in real time in China and a happy smiley in this swell version is right around the corner for Western Progressive societies at the world economic Forum conference in Davos in 2023 Duke University Professor Nita fani presented a disturbing seminar on the latest in brainwave technology after all what you think what you feel it’s all just data data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence we’re not talking about implanted devices of the future I’m talking about wearable devices that are like fitbits for your brain using consumer wearable devices these are headbands uh hats that have sensors that can pick up your brain wave activity earbuds headphones tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear we can pick up emotional states like are you happy or sad or angry we can pick up and decode faces that you’re seeing in your mind simple shapes numbers your PIN number to your bank account we’re moving beyond scientific management at this point it’s scientific micromanagement in 1948 CS Lewis wrote of all tyrannies a sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive it would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral Busy Bodies the robber barons cruelty May sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own Good Will torment us Without End for they do so with the approval of their own conscience this kind of expert control continues to be the dividing Force of progressives we see things like the Biden Administration telling us what light bulbs were allowed to buy Banning the sale of incandescent bulbs in 2023 and doing it through the department of energy which is under the executive branch so you have no say in the matter it’s the old Progressive obsession with efficiency only now with the added urgency of climate change the progressiv suffered a backlash after World War I in woodro Wilson’s second term for reasons we’ll explore in another episode later this season but there’s little doubt that Wilson would have kept running for president if his health hadn’t failed him he never fully recovered from the stroke that had incapacitated him for the last year and a half of his presidency that didn’t stop him from collaborating with Louis brandise in 1921 on a new Progressive Manifesto just as he was starting to plot another presidential run Wilson died later that year and instead Robert La fette kept the progressive flame burning running for president 1924 with a coalition of labor unions and socialist groups backing them who did he choose as his full-time running mate Louie brandise but brandise deed clined he couldn’t give up his influential lifetime post on the Supreme Court in 1922 Supreme Court heard a case involving a female student who was barred from attending Public School in San Antonio because her parents refused to get her vaccinated for smallpox as required by her school district their lawyers argued that the vaccine requirement denied her equal protection of the laws under the for th Amendment but the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against her and here’s what Louis brandise wrote in the decision quote long before this suit was instituted Jacobson versus Massachusetts had settled that it is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination these ordinances confer not arbitrary power but only that broad discretion is required for the protection of the public [Music] health in 2020 America met a certain Doctor Who is a little bit of Frederick Taylor Louie brandise woodro Wilson and Robert laet all rolled into one as if he had been created in a progressive lab few people embodied the sheer elitist Progressive conviction of their own genius expertise more than Anthony fouchy how many times was America told what an expert Dr fouchy really was he was a doctor who had been in this position for nearly 40 years that kind of expertise could not possibly go wrong even when the contradictions piled up to question the experts to question the science during National Health crisis was considered dangerous it’s very dangerous Chuck because a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people and there was push back against me so if you are trying to you know get at me as a public health official and a scientist you’re really attacking not only Dr Anthony fouchy you’re attacking science the expert was no longer just using science as a tool the expert had become the science we constantly rely on Experts to make decisions for us because even eyewitnesses and experts can get it wrong but experts do get things wrong you have to seek out sources from other points of view and then critically examine their motivations and credibility as well [Music]
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