An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less till he knows everthing about nothing.
Experts remove the holistic approach to any topic and view it as a control in an experiment rather than a situation which has to be dealt with..
its in the best interest of the expert to keep you in darkness...its a place that we've got to as a civilization when we need to be dogmatic to be heard and heralded as leaders/experts . The experts/leaders whose thoughts move to accommodate more opinions and views are not considered powerful or followable...in the words of the brilliant economist or should I say freakonomist Steven Levitt
"The typical expert...is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself. An expert doesn’t so much argue the various sides of an issue.... That’s because an expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn’t get much attention. An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom."
And the above is what we want our experts to be....
In the end all I can say is...with the current expectation of experts that we have now...
Experts, we can't live with them we can't live without...oh wait a minute, we CAN live without them :)
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