that’s a nice concluding thought that even prognostics like myself can get behind

come to think of it, there are 2 professions in the world that afford its practitioners a disproportionate amount of stage-time and access to mass broadcast channels, without having any requirement of formal education or certified skillset: Politician and Theologian/Minister.

taking this further, these two professions are largely the same — both are essentially popularity contests structured on shameless fund-raising, with the purported legitimacy of defining and enforcing rules of conduct for large segments of the population they oversee