
The Death of Expertise
The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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Sean Pratt
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Tom Nichols
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues.
Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols shows this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including 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.
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.
Nichols notes that 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.
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An extremely important book for our time
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Lamentations without solutions
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His assessment of the evolution of higher learning establishments was thought provoking, but he didn't offer any solutions to the problem which seems kind of lazy. I would have even been happy with a list of proposed ideas and why they won't work, but to not say anything on it gave me the impression that he didn't even bother brainstorming.
It also seems like he discredits the ability of any uncredentialed person to learn and know things within a specific field without formal training, and that's just not true. If you are smart enough to know your own limitations, are willing to challenge your world view and think critically about things, you can generally distinguish fact from fiction. That's how I can trust in medical science that vaccines are good, but also recognize when a doctor tells me some BS, like, 'wait and see if that cat bite gets infected, and THEN I'll prescribe antibiotics.'
This guy even throws shade on Chomsky for not staying in his lane.
Overall, there's some good info here, but I felt it was lacking something
not as much useful info as I had hoped
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LOL
PS - The spoken performance was trying, at times. I found the best way to erase the sardonic tone and odd intonation choices was to listen at 1.5 speed.
“Get off my quadrangle, you damned ingrates!”
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What’s sad is that I did everything wrong in this book. I let this happen just as much as everyone else did. I hope this can be corrected before the author’s fears are made real.
Scary
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Really enjoyable discomfort
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I have no regrets listening to it; I just feel I really got the nitty gritty of Tom's book in his editorial piece titled, 'The Death of Expertise', which isn't to say the book is of no value, but that I maybe could have better used my Audible credit on a book that could expand my knowledge domain; feed my recent appetite for knowledge domination in topics of importance in my time.
I don't think I could ever become an expert in something, but I should at least try to become a brilliant moron.
It's good. 👍
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Informative and a must read.
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Brilliant
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Very well done
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