{"id":37806,"date":"2019-03-14T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37806"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:49:44","slug":"qotd-the-doubting-of-the-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/qotd-the-doubting-of-the-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The doubting of the experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think the generation of experts of the 60s looked around and realized that the accomplishments of their elders had bought them enough status as a class that people would just&#8230; believe them. And so they did what most people would do if they suddenly discovered the magic power to make people believe anything they said. They abused it.<\/p>\n<p>And this magic power became an attraction for people to join the class. And so people who joined this class of &#8220;experts&#8221; who are now being told, &#8220;no, we don&#8217;t believe you&#8221; feel like they&#8217;ve been aggrieved. This wasn&#8217;t the deal they were promised. And, naturally, the reason isn&#8217;t because they don&#8217;t deserve it; it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re all inferior.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the corruption of a priesthood, and nothing more. The assumption of moral supremacy, the hunts for heretics and their consequent public destruction, the appeals to authority, the diminishing virtue&#8230; it&#8217;s all happened before. &#8220;You must let us regulate all aspects of your life to fend off the Climate Gods&#8221; is only different from the Aztec demands for human sacrifice to ensure the sun would rise at the margins. The core concept is the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/260313\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pjmedia%2Finstapundit+%28Instapundit%29#comment-3213662292\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Aaron M.&#8221;<\/a> commenting on Glenn Reynolds, &#8220;MY USA TODAY COLUMN: The Suicide of Expertise&#8221;, <em>Instapundit<\/em>, 2017-03-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the generation of experts of the 60s looked around and realized that the accomplishments of their elders had bought them enough status as a class that people would just&#8230; believe them. And so they did what most people would do if they suddenly discovered the magic power to make people believe anything they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41],"tags":[262,1574],"class_list":["post-37806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-technocracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9PM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37807,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37806\/revisions\/37807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}