The Cult of Experts

Faith and Reason need not be the mimetic rivals our society has made them

To escape the cesspool of confused and conflicted ‘expert opinions’ that are flooding our brains daily, we’ll need to turn to something outside of those skull-sized kingdoms—something that elevates and expands the scope of reason beyond the narrow confines of science.

Because when you’re sinking in the mud, you can’t pull yourself up by your own hair.

Dostoevsky saw the problem clearly. His protagonist, Raskolnikov, has a dream during a grave illness near the end of Crime and Punishment: “He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia.... Whole villages, whole towns and peoples went mad from the infection. All were excited and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone had the truth and was wretched looking at the others, beat himself on the breast, wept, and wrung his hands. They did not know how to judge and could not agree what to consider evil and what good; they did not know whom to blam…