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Part of me is kind of happy that the whole "era of experts" has come to an end- We've all just seen too many f-ups by experts to take such people as a whole too
by drcode 10y ago
Part of me is kind of happy that the whole "era of experts" has come to an end- We've all just seen too many f-ups by experts to take such people as a whole too seriously (the downside of course is that often experts really do have better answers than laypeople)
- gpvos 10y agoIn what way has it come to an end? In this article, I see only experts deciding on whether it is a Leonardo or not.
- tombo2008 10y agoIm not sure what you mean by the 'Era of Experts', much less it coming to an end. Can you explain this further? Im all for making people come out of their ivory towers a bit more but to suggest that having high levels of knowledge in a given subject is somehow a negative seems an odd position to take. But maybe Im reading you wrong?
- endisukaj 10y agoWe are living in the post-truth era. I may be reading the parent's comment wrong but I find it funny how it reminds me of some Brexit rhetoric where people were "tired of listening to experts on matters of economy".
- krenoten 10y agoThere's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis called [HyperNormalisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM), discussing how truth is seriously under fire right now.
- ghggthgfrtg 10y agoWorld, meet Trump supporter.
- drcode 10y agonope.
- ghggthgfrtg 10y agoYes, admit it. Don't lie to yourself.
- kjs3 10y agoWhen on expert fails, it's news. When a thousand non-experts fail, it's routine.