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Originally Posted by DesertRay
Berating experts is just as dumb as berating non-experts ("rubes"). The Internet has changed what expertise looks and feels like, and until that gets painfully rebuilt into society, the Potemkin signals of expertise will continue to wreck people and society. Print literacy was just as traumatic, but we'll eventually rebuild. It's everyone. We're all lost, and we're trying to rebuild what matters into the fabric of what runs us. That's why we keep hauling Zuck in front of Congress, but we'll have to remake pretty much everything to separate the useful from the fraudulent. It'll take time, and blaming ourselves is just as fruitless as blaming others. It distracts from the hard work and compromises necessary to turn the corner.
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What has happened is the pre internet world of credentialism has collapsed due to the internet (this has happened before). Hate to inform all but it will take a couple generations for society to renegotiate authority in the wake of the information revolution.
In the meantime it will be chaos. The best you can do is build the foundations of authority that may become the new trusted institutions (no promises it will work) we will all be long dead before things "settle"
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