Quote of the Day

From Postmodern Times by Gene Edward Veith, Jr.:

Thus many of the society's most important decisions are made not by ordinary citizens but by an unelected elite. Hospitals farm out questions of medical ethics to committees of "experts." Courtroom decisions hinge on the testimony of "expert witnesses" (who can usually be found to represent both sides of a case). Congressional committees listen to the testimony of "experts" in drafting legislation designed to solve society's problems. In most cases, the experts are brought in to answer questions that ordinary human beings have always been competent to answer: Is this fair? Is this right or wrong? Will this work? When the experts become permanently entrenched in governmental bureaucracies and receive the authority to set policies with the status of law, the democratic process becomes more and more irrelevant.