The world is full of experts though, pretty much everyone who has worked in an industry their whole life is some kind of expert. I'm an expert in construction. I constantly demur to the expertise of other guys who have different specialties.
The problem is that the 'expert' has been co-opted by the political class. It lets them make argum…
The world is full of experts though, pretty much everyone who has worked in an industry their whole life is some kind of expert. I'm an expert in construction. I constantly demur to the expertise of other guys who have different specialties.
The problem is that the 'expert' has been co-opted by the political class. It lets them make arguments from authority while shielding them from the responsibility of having done so.
The problem isn't with experts, it's with the use of them as a cat's paw to wield power. The same principle occurs everywhere. If a field/person/institution is a conduit for power it will become corrupted and stupid as it's purpose is bent to serve that power.
That's why the feeling you have for 'experts' is the same one you have for 'the media' or 'universities'. The same thing has happened to all of them. It's a symptom of the fact that power has to mask itself in western societies because we haven't integrated our shadow and can't deal with it so we have to hide it behind all these different things.
The world is full of experts though, pretty much everyone who has worked in an industry their whole life is some kind of expert. I'm an expert in construction. I constantly demur to the expertise of other guys who have different specialties.
The problem is that the 'expert' has been co-opted by the political class. It lets them make arguments from authority while shielding them from the responsibility of having done so.
The problem isn't with experts, it's with the use of them as a cat's paw to wield power. The same principle occurs everywhere. If a field/person/institution is a conduit for power it will become corrupted and stupid as it's purpose is bent to serve that power.
That's why the feeling you have for 'experts' is the same one you have for 'the media' or 'universities'. The same thing has happened to all of them. It's a symptom of the fact that power has to mask itself in western societies because we haven't integrated our shadow and can't deal with it so we have to hide it behind all these different things.