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Josh Ricks's avatar

"Outsource your judgment." Some form of this idea has been bouncing around my dome for the last few years. I have a fascination of (maybe disdain for) how many people seem to seek an "expert" in whom to outsource their *thinking* (trust "the science!"). Perhaps my disdain is for the mere idea of an "expert."...at least the modern version.

There are also too many stovepiped paths (traps?) for our best and brightest where they only learn the curated information deemed relevant for their specific field. Some are arrogant enough to think they have the whole picture and only their opinion or those of others who have spent years focused in one area of study are the only ones which matter...these folks seem to attract the feeble minded outsourcers in a self-reinforcing ecosystem of ignorance.

A lot of MDs seem to fall into this category. That has to be by design. Some are sharp / curious / observant enough to break free from the narcissism of intelligence mindtrap because they open up their information aperature wide enough to realize how full of shit or blissfully negligent they are of conflicting information directly relevant to their "expertise." A lot of archaeologists and historians also fail here, it seems.

True experts will always be needed, but their curated information feed needs to be scrutinized and de-emphasized by a more classical approach to education successful in creating the thinkers of old. Institutions which control them (AMA, AAP, etc.) need to be neutered as they are too easily corrupted / controlled by those with interests counter to humanity.

Paul Cartier's avatar

Yes, common knowledge these days is nothing more than "trust the experts".

Jordan Nuttall's avatar

Love this bro 👌🏽

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Agree! Problem is that the public continues to be gas lite to drive the bottom line!

We have a dysfunctional sick care system in the USA masquerading as a healthcare system to meet that end. Ever expanding medical corporations growing their bottom line, not for good health but profit!

Claudia Schrobsdorff's avatar

I am not sure at all that 'things got better'. I am old and remember life in the seventies and eighties without the electronic trappings and it felt much better, more straightforward, less cluttered, more connected and manageable to me; without the internet, even though I use it a lot, for reading and business.

R L's avatar

Excellent piece, agree on all

Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Though I have no religion, I am quite spiritual. And yes, the moneyed psychopaths in control on Our planet (by virtue of money) are destroying common knowledge.

Given We are indoctrinated from birth by the psychopaths with money, propagandized and lied to, the groups of Us groomed to create divides, and Our medicine, land, food, water, air, education, electromagnetic environment, and information flow have been deliberately degraded, I think it's a miracle any of Us "wake up." I have a very great amount of compassion for Our beset race here on Our planet.

Perhaps removing the tool that allows those psychopaths to do this to Humanity would be the best option...

Let’s Obsolete Money and Get Rid of Cartels! (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/lets-obsolete-money-and-get-rid-of

Crixcyon's avatar

The only common thing we must share is to leave the darkness behind.