Ukraine and American Decline w/Col Doug MacGregor (Judging Freedom)

Excellent interview with Colonel MacGregor talking about dangerous conformist behaviour of career military, and politicians, so that intelligent independent thinkers are rarely promoted. He relates a story where they were told that the smartest the man in the room was the one with the most stars (the highest ranked general). He said not many realised that they were not. There's real wisdom in his thoughts here.

MacGregor pointed out that he had seen plenty of leaders getting promoted because they kept their heads down and played a political game. He further said that it was almost certain other more intelligent people operated within his command and the wise thing to do would be to remain open to ideas. Rank was not everything.

This sort of lesson, or reflection, is something that should be more well known to the general public. The truth is that some of the least best, morally questionable people have tended to rise to high positions of power. Today we are paying the price for having a system that allows this to happen.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 21, 2023.]