I think this post of lbrandy is very similar to your post on identity. Not relating to identity part but about general public's expertise in certain matters. Pe

I think this post of lbrandy is very similar to your post on identity. Not relating to identity part but about general public's expertise in certain matters. People involving themselves into subject matters in which they are not really experts but with a false-ego of expertise. If one agrees with your above comment they would have to put both posts in the same bucket and in fact the whole thing is a meta-problem of expertise, as you mention it: "The same way he became an expert on the level of..."