Anya Spethmann

@anyaspethmann.bsky.social

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Wine & words. Perpetual student.

A raccoon on a wooden deck.
“The Fords’ undertaking seemed to be based less on any kind of consistent principle than on nurtured resentment, gut instinct, and a general aversion to what onlookers might refer to as competent governance. But “incompetence” didn’t quite capture the essence of the Ford administration’s technique. It would better be described as “uncompetence.” Incompetence is when people make bad decisions. Uncompetence is when people start to suspect that competence is something the elites do, and decide to do something else instead. It is the act of not merely approaching a situation with a healthy ignorance about the subject at hand, but of doggedly maintaining that ignorance, since clarity would muddy the waters. Uncompetence means having the ability to do something well, but instead doing it poorly because it better suits your ends.” — The Gift of Ford by Ivor Tossell
Beavis and Butthead.