The Colonization of Life

Crawford: People who are subject to the experts, disempowered, they lose power in the arena. What I think Crawford is trying to do is make a case for just kind of leaving people alone. In fact, it's very next sentence says what you just said. These are powers that develop naturally through action in the world. The legitimacy and confidence of the, of common sense is eroded. Actions reduced to making choices from a menu of presented options. They say, okay, these are the things you can choose. You can choose a beers. It might as well. When I would say to my kids, you can like basically the choice was eat your vegetables or sit in