Everyone’s an expert now | The Gray Area

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Almost a decade ago, Tom Nichols warned that Americans were losing respect for expertise. He didn’t expect things to get this bad. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Sean talks with Nichols about his 2017 book “The Death of Expertise” and what’s happened since: why people don’t just distrust experts but actively push back against them, how the internet turns bad ideas into communities, and why a society that can’t agree on basic facts can’t function for long. They also dig into the deeper causes: loneliness, narcissism, and the weird psychology of living in a world where everything “just works.” Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling) Guest: Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) 00:00 Intro 01:13 A Growing Contempt for Competence: Revisiting The Death of Expertise 08:14 Decadence and the collapse of respect for competence 18:07 How internet echo chambers destroys shared reality 21:59 Is the ruling class to blame for the death of expertise? 28:34 How to separate healthy skepticism from

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