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Take the "Do your own research" slogan for what it is - an attack on expertise. It is an attempt to lower the status, and presumably power, of "the elites" (cr
by _jal 5y ago
Take the "Do your own research" slogan for what it is - an attack on expertise.
It is an attempt to lower the status, and presumably power, of "the elites" (credentialed experts), mostly perpetrated by the real (monied) elites.
- mcguire 5y agoOn the contrary, most of the people making the "do your own research" attack on expertise are not "elites" in any sense. They're the same people who say, "I could have been an X except for all the pointless math/science". The wealthy or semi-wealthy are either riding the wave for their own benefit or don't like what the expertise says.