That brutish execution of political ends is endemic in Western corporatism, generally, I note. I visited a doctor for a wound on my knee that didn't heal. He took a sharpie and drew a cross on it, gave me 4 vials of unguents, and told me to apply a different one to each of the four quarters of the lesion, and call him after the weekend.

One of them seemed to be working, and he prescribed it.

While this was seemingly a blatant exercise in admission of ignorance, I found it vastly preferable to the more common practice of doctors of pretense to omniscience, in which they would say 'Ah, it's this you have, and this will fix you right up.' Then, as each unguent serially fails, they prescribe the next, until they hit on the one that works, or your leg falls off, whichever comes first.

Give me honest ignorance and experiment to discover the facts any day! Rather than ignorance, it is the pretense of being infallible that is most bestial and rude. This quality is remarkably evident in political discourse, in the need to divide 'us' against 'them' and so create political power.