Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre

by Alain Deneault

What is the chief skill of a mediocre person? Recognizing another one. Together, they will organize back-scratchings, make sure favours are returned, and, since they quickly find ways to attract their fellows,

Technical perfection is needed to conceal the profound intellectual laziness involved in so many conformist professions of faith. Committed to the exacting demands of work that is never their own, and immersed in thoughts that are ordered from above, mediocre people lose sight of their own banality.

systemic processes help those who have average levels of competence rise to positions of power, pushing aside both the super-competent and the incompetent.