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"Why don’t Americans trust the experts?
One answer is that experts get a lot of things wrong and often they pay a big
price for those mistakes. From the forever wars to the 2008 financial crisis to
the botched pandemic response, it seems Americans are constantly careening from
one avoidable catastrophe to another.
Another answer is something like Martin Gurri’s thesis in his 2014 book
The
Revolt of the Public: The digital revolution has transformed the information
space in ways that have empowered individuals and undermined the dominant
institutions in society — government, media, the academy — and the elites who
run them.
Whatever the causes, America has an expert problem and it’s making it harder
and harder to solve its societal troubles. Michael Lewis, bestselling author of
books like
Liar’s Poker and
Moneyball, is taking all of this on in the new
season of his podcast
Against the Rules.
Lewis is as good a storyteller as we have, and he takes a close look at what’s
happened to our trust in experts and expertise. The problem, he says, isn’t
that we lack experts; in fact, we have lots of experts and some of them have
likely saved your life before. The issue is that we don’t value expertise and
are therefore really bad at recognizing it when we see it."
Via Christoph S, who wrote "THIS! This is is not only limited to Americans!"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
