I don't disagree much on fact, but the attitude on display here is not helpful. It turns people off. There was a time when people were willing to trust authori

I don't disagree much on fact, but the attitude on display here is not helpful. It turns people off. There was a time when people were willing to trust authority figures and accept the advice of credentialed experts without question. That time is over. If you talk this way to people, they tune you out. Part of the reason for this is the Internet itself, and the general displacing of one-to-many communications with many-to-many communications. The medium is the message, and the message of this medium is "information is liquid, and there are no privileged points of view." But more significantly, I think people have grown fatigued with the errors and lies of experts. Experts with all the right credentials once told women to smoke. It's a great way to lose weight. Margarine was once good for you. In 2006, the worst time to buy a house in 100 years, the President of the United States stood up on stage and encouraged more people to buy homes. People are sick of it, and they're not listening anymore. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. The only way to get peoples' attention now is to speak to them like equals and explain yourself. Opaque statements that appeal to authority tend to be tossed in the waste basket by most educated, thinking people. The only people who are willing to "just believe" anymore are fanatics, and they tend to be followers of the most idiotic bullshit imaginable.