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The anti-experts

Mined from the notebooks, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Posted Wednesday morning, July 8.

I wonder which type of anti-experts these three jamokes are, What Makes You So Smarts? or You’re Not the Boss of Me’s!: Scene outside the Connecticut governor’s mansion in Hartford, April 20, 2020. Big guy (center) wearing a purple shirt and shades holds a hand-drawn sign that says, “MY BODY MY CHOICE” and “Scared? YOU stay home!” with a cartoon of a surgical mask crossed out. Photo by Dan Haar, Hearst Connecticut Group, courtesy of the Middletown Press.

From the Department of In Search of Lost Time, April 20, 2020, another very short essay:

Two types of anti-experts: Types who won’t accept that anyone is smarter than them and types who think it’s a crime for anyone to be smarter than them. Both are of the same more general types: The Oh Yeah, What Makes You So Smarts?, the Why Should I Listen to Yous?, and the Who Made You the Boss of Me’s?

Lance Mannion on Wednesday, July 08, 2020 in Mining the notebooks | Permalink

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