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these “alpha-rubes” live in a world that is all appeal to authority stacked like turtles all the way down.
so what happens if this source of validation is corrupt?
you get the worst of all worlds:
a scheming, unaccountable grand vizier and a useful idiot king on the mistaken moral crusade upon which his advisors have set him.
do yo think ANY of these people understand climate science or pandemic management or even basic statistics, economics, or logic beyond what the people around them are telling them?
can they tell a good expert from a liar with a model?
no.
and worse, the selection is adverse.
they choose flash, profession of certainty, and whatever allows them to do what they wanted. so they gravitate to the liars and simplifiers who are telling it like it ain’t with sensational claims that lack foundation.
if you cannot tell an expert from a credentialed con-man, you go with what works for you. you go with the answer that lets you do what you want. and politicians want power.
and this is, of course, precisely why we should not grant it to them. this is “sorcerer’s apprentice” level debacle in process with 20 more on deck. then they will call you crazy and gaslight you for claiming otherwise.
this is how the basic nature of “democratically elected” government becomes a puppetshow with the strings held by a few unelected and near perpetual puppetmasters.
who is declaring “the crises”?
who is deciding upon “the solutions”?
because it sure ain’t anyone you voted for.
Surrendering a bad or corrupted system for an anarchic system isn't really the answer.
What's the worst thing that happens if someone can call themself a doctor without any licensing or education? Stupid people who don't do their research die. Isn't this Darwin's theory in action? It always surprises me how people who deny God still cling to him, just in the form of weak, corrupt man. If you desire authority in your life to keep you safe, you are really looking for God. Don't accept cheap imitations. But God does for those who can do for themselves. He's big on personal responsibility, but it's what's best for you.
This credentialism is a recent phenomenon which has only come to dominate from the early 20th century. Before then, anyone could be a doctor - it was more of an apprenticeship under "recognized" physicians.
What was medicine like before the AMA? Pretty much a whole bunch of people trying to figure out the practice of medicine.
Where is the BAR association given any powers over who gets to be a lawyer in the Constitution?
Is redemption possible for the sins of expertness? The only one I know that works requires the systematic retirement of experts. To be sure, many of them are sucked into chairs, deanships, vice presidencies, and other black holes in which they are unlikely to influence the progress of science or anything else for that matter. Surely a lot more people could retire from their fields and turn their intelligence, imagination, and methodological acumen to new problem areas where, having shed most of their prestige and with no prior personal pronouncements to defend, they could enjoy the liberty to argue new evidence and ideas on the latter's merits.
But there are still far more experts around than is healthy for the advancement of science. Because their voluntary retirement does not seem to be any more frequent in 2000 than it was in 1980, I repeat my proposal that the retirement of experts be made compulsory at the point of their academic promotion and tenure.
Is redemption possible for the sins of expertness? The only one I know that works requires the systematic retirement of experts. To be sure, many of them are sucked into chairs, deanships, vice presidencies, and other black holes in which they are unlikely to influence the progress of science or anything else for that matter.
Ours is a zero-trust society, and crazy-sounding conspiracy theorists are usually far more trustworthy than government officials, mainstream journalists, academic researchers, etc. As we have seen, the credentialed “experts” who brandish the regime’s imprimatur have been consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything that matters.
A growing number of people, possibly even a majority, now accept that this is so, even if most of them are reluctant to acknowledge it publicly. People are sick of being conned and gaslit by the powers-that-be. ...
Okay, I know that these “conspiracy theories” can sound pretty crazy, especially when you go outside into the sunshine and “touch grass” and interact with all the shiny, happy normies out there. But let us not forget, my fellow Americans, that in the past few years, our own government recently partnered with Chinese communists to engineer a virus; then, once that virus “escaped” from the lab, our government collaborated with public and private organizations around the globe to lie about the severity of that virus, to lie about which treatments were effective and which ones weren’t, and to censor any and all true information that contradicted its lies; our government then compelled people to take preventative measures and treatments that its own officials knew were ineffective; etc., etc., etc. How many people died as a result, especially once you factor in deaths from despair (suicides, overdoses, etc.)? And precisely none of the folks who committed all of these crimes have even been prosecuted for it, let alone convicted of a crime and sent to prison. And don’t forget that this is a familiar pattern by now: think Iraq, 9/11, the psychotic immigration and border policy, the BLM movement and its “reforms,” etc.
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