From Mikelis Munters comes a suggestion to characterize our government: Sophistocracy. Earlier suggestions were technocracy, expertocracy, and academocracy. Munters writes:
“The sophists were apparently experts in all things, specializing especially in what they called ‘making the weaker argument the stronger,’ or, in other words, convincingly presenting lies as truth by dressing them in the misleading cloth of the arguer’s expertise. The modern day bureaucratic system and progressive era ideal of ‘professionalism’ fit in perfectly with this model: the learned know best what is best for us ordinary folks, and they demand legions of lawyers to mediate between the various experts and present their lies in the most ‘convincing’ light.”
