"There has never been a system that allows "us" to know who has deep and genuine knowledge. Darwin wrote origin of the species without a PhD. Ramanujan went around showing his notebooks full of theorems to anyone who could appreciate them. Expertise is proven by output alone."
I voted for Democrats most of my life, but they have run off the rails, especially for the past 5 years:
I agree with David Sacks here. To see the disastrous effects of US trade policy on the US middle class, take a road trip through America's many decimated town and small cities.
BTW, a lot of the people who worked these middle class jobs were men. How are men doing in education and the job market now that many of these jobs no longer exist? Steve Stewart-Williams tells us in his article, "The Other Half: Six gender gaps we rarely talk about" Here are his conclusions:
If your kids' pediatrician fails to tell you pharma is PAYING them to foist the massive vaccine schedule on your children, you are being denied informed consent. It's as bad as your attorney failing to disclose to you that they have a massive conflict of interest in handling your case.
Parents of young children, when your child’s pediatrician (or spouse) admonishes you for “vaccine hesitancy” towards the massive amount of vaccinations “strongly recommended” or mandated against now largely non-existent diseases due to sanitation and hygiene practices (the science of which is undeniable), know they will next resort to citing strictly, and often legally, enforced guidelines issued by brazenly captured regulatory agencies and professional societies by vaccine manufacturers.
The worst case is when you just want to delay or spread out the governments unconscionably aggressive schedule of innumerable vaccinations to small children, the pediatrician will then go so far as to refuse your child to be a member of their practice because you are not “compliant.” This chart below will tell you largely (but not completely) why they behave the way they do.
I've often enjoyed listening to Douglas Murray, but he seems to have gone off the rails for two reasons: A) His enthusiasm for war as a solution to complex disputes and B) His wish to control the free flow of information between other people based on his claim that we need to shut up and rely on "experts," by which I assume he means credentialed experts.
In this segment, Joe Rogan and Dave Smith dismantle Murray with simple questions. Watch him dart to a new topic whenever he is challenged.
I would agree with Saagar Enjeti's description:
And here's a glaring irony pointed out by Enjeti:
As Dave Smith points out, during the pandemic, the "experts" got almost everything wrong. Murray has no response. The COVID error would include many of the following:
Here's a bigger irony. If only "experts" should weigh in on complex and important topics of the day, what does that say about democracy? Most of us voters are unwashed masses, uncredentialed in most things, yet we are asked to cast votes that will determine the fate of our country. Murray's attitude can be seen playing out in the EU (and elsewhere, including the US), where people are increasingly being denied the chance to vote for the candidates they support.
I'll end with this post by Mike Benz:
