Experts Not Required

The world becomes too detailed to know everything.

So the only recourse seems to be expertise.

Expertise forces society to base their decisions on trust.

Trust is easy to abuse because a field’s jargon obfuscates what’s happening.

Society becomes incapable of discerning what is real.

Society thinks it can, eventually, find trustworthy experts, but no such criteria exist because of previous point.

The fault at the heart of the whole problem is the belief that details are required to understand the world. It is this vestigial notion from the “Enlightenment” that is so deeply infested into society, making it almost impossible for people to comprehend the epistemological truth that the details of a thing do not map to the behavior of a thing, and that experts are, in fact, not needed.