Great thread by 17c. Expanding a bit: The system compulsively cultivates "expert opinion" in every area - co-opting the consensus to ensure that it is always pro-expansion of regime power in one way or another and the only valid opinion in an area.https://twitter.com/17cShyteposter/status/1391542660008005633 …
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If you haven't read Mcgoey's "The Logic of Strategic Ignorance" it's an excellent insight into this particular issue - that public expressions of ignorance on a subject are perversely more valuable when coming from experts (as an alibi to decision makers who make bad decisions)pic.twitter.com/dERaxzJgxJ
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You can see this clearly in this repeating pattern: "No one could have predicted this result, all the experts agreed" "But this guy predicted it" <silence> (which works because experts only have to reply to expert critique)
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