On Jun 7, 2022, at 17:01, Steve via groups.io <qed28@...> wrote:
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Boy are we in for it!
Tom Nichols'?The Death of Expertise?shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24 hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017 paperback edition of?The Death of Expertise?provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The?Death of Expertise?issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:14
On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 04:44:01 PM EDT, Ward Wheaton via groups.io <wmwheaton@...> wrote:
Watching this has been a validation of Dunning-Kruger for me. Yeah you, you know who I'm talking about. No, wait, you don't. My only lasting question is why some people seem to be unable to present their "facts" without always, every single time, ending with some sort of labeling or name calling. Are they that insecure? I stop listening as soon as someone starts with the hate, and if the "facts" are so undeniable, why resort to playground insults? Seems to come mainly from one side . .
