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a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
“Laypeople complain about the rule of experts and they demand greater involvement in complicated national questions, but many of them only express their anger and make these demands after abdicating their own important role in the process: namely, to stay informed and politically literate enough to choose representatives who can act on their behalf. In the words of Ilya Somin, “When we elect government officials based on ignorance, they rule over not only those who voted for them but all of society. When we exercise power over other people, we have a moral obligation to do so in at least a reasonably informed way.”17”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of its own choices.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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