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Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The World Has Just Gotten More Complicated, Right?
The world has just gotten much more complicated. In response to the complexity, we've generated a whole bunch of experts who can understand little pieces of the world for us. But if we then fail to acknowledge their expertise, we're sort of stuck in this really horrible place where we've got a more complicated world than no ability to understand it. There's now so much information. We know so much more. The world is more transparent, and at the same time, paradoxically enough, confusing. People in power can't control the ry societies are telling themselves about themselves.
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