I’ve been a bit neglectful of the blog lately. Life is beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day, with few new impressions to think or write about (other than the books I’ve been reading in the evenings the past couple of weeks, which I’m still digesting). I’ve been spending a lot of time down in the studio, working on our collaborative music project (the first installment of which, for those of you who missed it, you can listen to here).
Lewis Amselem, a.k.a. DiploMad, has been lying low as well, but yesterday he emerged to post a piquant item about the lessons we can take from the Wuhan Red Death and this protracted surrender of our liberties lockdown.
Money quote:
I have written a lot about the “experts,” their models, and policy prescriptions, and how they have produced the dire predicament in which we find ourselves. I will try not to repeat it all, but, of course, will just a bit…
A real expert is somebody who can keep a farm running, or fix a complex piece of machinery, or build a house, or keep a fleet of trucks on the road, or pick off an enemy sniper at 600 meters. Those are true experts. They produce tangible results. Getting a university credential from “experts” does not make you an expert, it makes you an “expert.”
Read the whole thing here.
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I have always thought that an “expert” can just be a drip under pressure.