Join the flat earth society1/29/2024 You can hardly touch upon a subject on which anyone and everyone doesn't feel (key word there is "feel") that they have an expert opinion to offer. And it's not that nobody's listening to "experts." My concern is that everyone's an expert on everything. That being said, I actually have a concern here. ![]() And he's obviously put all of his mind and energy into excelling at the game he loves. Maybe it's me but I kind of like how myopic he is. I'll admit, I kind of thought it was sort of fun. It came to popular notice recently when NBA star Kyrie Irving said he believed the earth was flat and then some others jumped on board. I root for the Bigfoot hunters and hope that one day they'll drag a Sasquatch from out of the woods and be covered in glory for their exploits that proved all the experts wrong.Īnd now I read that the Flat Earth Society is back! Fun. In an age when everyone seems to possess his own 'truth', there is little wisdom to be found. That's why I love climate "experts" who warn that whole cities will be submerged by next Tuesday. To be honest, I'm a fan of thumbing my nose at so-called "experts." Few things bring me greater joy than a hyperinflated expert being publicly proven wrong. A few days ago I read a piece by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame about " The Suicide of Experts." Reynold's point is that the "experts" haven't exactly covered themselves in glory the past few decades. In fact, there's a book called The Death of Experts about just that. That reaction has many experts fretting about the lack of respect being shown to experts. ![]() People put up YouTube videos of it, Facebooked about it, and emailed it to each other. On election night last November, I took great joy in seeing the glib so-called "experts" look increasingly surprised (horrified?) that everything they thought they knew was proven wrong on the most widely watched event of the year.
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