Random thoughts on trust
Disorganized thoughts about distrust of Experts and the complexity of I SEE NOW moments.

One type of Expert has never been trusted. Reviewers and critics, and the prize-givers in the arts. Pulitzers, Nobels, Oscars, etc. This is true of consumer products like cars as well as movies and paintings and poetry.

Even the media, which pays most of these Experts, recognizes that "critically acclaimed" means "trash that nobody wants to buy or see".

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After WW2, as part of the rebirth of Deepstate, all media switched to MANDATORY trust of all experts.

We gave full authority to Freudian shrinks in the court system, even though shrinks themselves knew and sometimes openly admitted that they did more harm than good. We haven't passed through an I SEE NOW moment, but the authority of shrinks has gradually shrunk.

Economists were a more recent development, not really a defined profession until the '30s. Again the Deepstate coup in '46 gave full control of the economy to economists. 2008 was the I SEE NOW moment for economists. Among people who knew something about the economy, everyone realized that economists were simply stock shills, paid to raise Share Value.

There wasn't an instant I SEE NOW moment for climatologists, more of a gradual decade. They weren't well known anyway, but among people who paid attention, the Global Warming hoax that took over the media in the '90s destroyed climatologists. The stain rubbed off on plain old meteorologists who had passively assented to the hoax, even though many of them didn't really agree.

Doctors have moved back and forth on the trust scale. Before 1940, doctors simply couldn't cure many diseases, so most people didn't automatically take their advice. Refusing to obey doctors was a minority view, but it was understood as a legitimate view.

Doctors started to ruin their own authority around 2010, when they became official agents of the government and official Inquisitors for the Center For Dissident Control. The current holocaust is a sharp and precise I SEE NOW moment, totally destroying the authority of doctors.

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