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Experts have their place and can be extremely valuable in those places, this no doubt being one reason for the old expression, “Experts should be on tap, not on top.” For broader social decision-making, however, experts are no substitute for systemic processes which engage innumerable factors on which no given individual can possibly be expert, and engage the 99 percent of consequential knowledge scattered in fragments among the population at large and coordinated systemically during the process of their mutual accommodations to one another’s demand and supply.
Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell
Utopian ideologies are psychopathic and arise from an inability to inhabit reality (at least without treatment).
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
James Lindsay
But we lie to ourselves for assurance. And it is not they who are to blame for everything - we ourselves, only we.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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