Experts

 

Occasionally I read an editorial online in Townhall.com which piques my interest. I have longed complained that educated elites, intellectuals, professors or as Eric Hoffer wrote, men of words, because they are experts in some specialty and may be highly credentialed, they assume that they are smarter than the masses (Their arrogance about their actual, legitimate expertise often closes them to reeving new insights from amateurs, and they assume that they have the right to rule the masses tyrannically, that they are naturally superior, smarter and morally above the inferior, dumber, less moral masses not rational enough as individuals to run their own affairs.

These experts run in cliques, so their expertise is blunted by their groupthinking, their group conformity, and their slavish insistence upon forcing the square shape of their expertise into the round pegs of ideological doctrine which their holy cause is justified by.

They are addicted to and sickened by power lust the power of powerlessness, the insatiable need to run and ruin the lives of all citizens, allowed no room to express themselves, think for themselves, to run their own affairs without elite interference and checkmating.

Experts should be heard, but each of the masses, if we can encourage the majority to grow into and live as anarchist individuating supercitizens, must think for herself and the majority of the supercitizens shall decide whether, to what degree or how they will heed or not heed what experts provide them with.

Here is Amy Curtis with her editorial, posted on 11/18/25: “

This Is Why No One Trusts 'Experts' Anymore

Amy Curtis | November 18, 2025 9:45 AM

This is correct, of course. And no, the "experts" didn't even think of this. Because they're not considering all the outcomes and implications. They have an agenda and are only concerned with what supports that agenda.”

My response: I am of two minds here. Eric Hoffer and Dennis Prager, at various times, have suggested that idealists or experts are well-intentioned, and remain unconcerned and unaware of the disastrous consequences to their reckless, fearlessly implemented changes, making everything worse. They are excused because they ‘mean well.’ Often they do.

Or they do not mean well at all, that they are liars seeking power, destruction and chaos as the most effective tools for creating social panic and stampeding the masses into a totalitarian regime, the real aim of these intellectuals all the time.

Both motives are often at work at the same time, I worry.

Curtis: “

Consent has to be a two-way street, and the "experts" didn't think of this, either.