Not bad, not bad at all. Like all well crafted propaganda it contains a high percentage of absolute truth. And the authors did, in several places, put in the conditional disclaimer “if we are right” (concerning our abstract obsevations of human nature) then what appears next explains what is observed in reality.
In point of fact the whole article reads like a well crafted conspiracy theory that would hold up well in the places where I argue such things.
If this were presented in the company I keep I would challenge the theorists (authors) to elaborate and illuminate the following un-mentioned fact from within the perspective of their theory: the “expert” status awarded any given individual is based on a very narrow footprint compared to the full depth and breadth of human knowledge. Expertise is by definition a narrow range of knowledge. Many a person who carries expert status truly does not know how to change the oil in their own automobile. Understandable, they like everyone only has so much time available and they spent their time learning something else.
The problem, considered at the level of the social psychology they reference, is that Empire Academia (part of how they earned that derogatory title in the court of my opinion) demands that any level of expertise in any minor to tiny area of human knowledge should be awarded an elevated status and voracity when interacting outside the area of their expertise! “The experts say…” but just exactly what are they experts in? Bovine scatollogy?
Long and short of it is (that once the traitors within Academia have been rooted out and purged from our nation) we in the great unwashed mob of the un-degreed should wise up AND NEVER AGAIN SELL THEM AN IVORY TOWER… nope, make ’em pay rent on the thing, and by the fact that they are paying rent confess the fact that they, in and of their own effort, could not have built the thing in the first place.
June 6, 2025 @ 3:10 pm
Not bad, not bad at all. Like all well crafted propaganda it contains a high percentage of absolute truth. And the authors did, in several places, put in the conditional disclaimer “if we are right” (concerning our abstract obsevations of human nature) then what appears next explains what is observed in reality.
In point of fact the whole article reads like a well crafted conspiracy theory that would hold up well in the places where I argue such things.
If this were presented in the company I keep I would challenge the theorists (authors) to elaborate and illuminate the following un-mentioned fact from within the perspective of their theory: the “expert” status awarded any given individual is based on a very narrow footprint compared to the full depth and breadth of human knowledge. Expertise is by definition a narrow range of knowledge. Many a person who carries expert status truly does not know how to change the oil in their own automobile. Understandable, they like everyone only has so much time available and they spent their time learning something else.
The problem, considered at the level of the social psychology they reference, is that Empire Academia (part of how they earned that derogatory title in the court of my opinion) demands that any level of expertise in any minor to tiny area of human knowledge should be awarded an elevated status and voracity when interacting outside the area of their expertise! “The experts say…” but just exactly what are they experts in? Bovine scatollogy?
Long and short of it is (that once the traitors within Academia have been rooted out and purged from our nation) we in the great unwashed mob of the un-degreed should wise up AND NEVER AGAIN SELL THEM AN IVORY TOWER… nope, make ’em pay rent on the thing, and by the fact that they are paying rent confess the fact that they, in and of their own effort, could not have built the thing in the first place.