"This isn't wisdom. It's mere cynicism that's trying to pass itself off as wisdom." Not to mention a blatant strawman argument. The author never even bothers

"This isn't wisdom. It's mere cynicism that's trying to pass itself off as wisdom." Not to mention a blatant strawman argument. The author never even bothers to defend his argument against the obvious counterargument that perhaps the same kind of politicians, and the same kind of political thinking, that has failed to solve (or outright caused) so many major national problems is perhaps not worth trusting to solve them in the future, and that maybe a more pragmatic approach is needed. From reading through some of his other pieces, I'm fairly certain that he doesn't know his subject well here. Does he seriously think that engineers think in binary and idolize Mr. Spock?