“For our experts, it has been the worst of years, and the best of years: the worst, because their failures and foolishness have been manifest; the best, because they have, by managed and controlled failure, increased their power and extended their reach.” (For those of us Latin-deprived, Peritus means- an expert who advises & assists the hierarchy particularly, the Vatican)
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/07/peritus-parasitus-wants-its-host-alive-but-not-healthy/