Certainly there are experts on subjects in the world. When you need a surgery, you seek out a surgeon, and ideally one who is renowned for the surgery you need.

Certainly there are experts on subjects in the world. When you need a surgery, you seek out a surgeon, and ideally one who is renowned for the surgery you need. But when I hear, "Nobody knows what they're doing", I tend to think of it more in overall terms, and given the state of the world, it's the best explanation I have for why things are the way they are - the world is at best a half-broken mess of klooges and we drift from one crisis into the next; there's no plan to any of it and ultimately no real meaning.