Lately I find myself stuck between two opposite ends of thought:
1) The “expert” class is a morally compromised gang of elitist autocrats, and we are better off looking to populist sentiment for wisdom.
2) The “death of expertise” is an urgent epistemological crisis that we must fix by actively deferring to the expert class, taking their errors in stride …
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