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by tombo2008 3474 days ago
Im not sure what you mean by the 'Era of Experts', much less it coming to an end. Can you explain this further?

Im all for making people come out of their ivory towers a bit more but to suggest that having high levels of knowledge in a given subject is somehow a negative seems an odd position to take. But maybe Im reading you wrong?

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We are living in the post-truth era. I may be reading the parent's comment wrong but I find it funny how it reminds me of some Brexit rhetoric where people were "tired of listening to experts on matters of economy".
There's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis called [HyperNormalisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM), discussing how truth is seriously under fire right now.