> Unfortunately, in social media, everybody gets to be an expert! How can the average person tell? Good book by Tom Nichols: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

> Unfortunately, in social media, everybody gets to be an expert! How can the average person tell? Good book by Tom Nichols: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise Not anything recent: > There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. * “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, January 21, 1980, p. 19. * PDF: https://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf https://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_... 'Special' thinking has been part of the American DNA since the beginning (Jamestown, Puritans/Pilgrims): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasyland:_How_America_Went_Haywire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasyland:_How_America_Went_...