For further details, see “The Master Plan” podcast series from The Lever.
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Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the furition of things Reagan and Nixon put into motion. There’s been a concerted effort to attack our public education and stoke reactionary sentiment for the last 40+ years to bring us to this point, the dumbing down is deliberate
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Also the villification of experts as people hell bent on leveraging their expertise to dominate our control non experts.
I recently right that a useful counter to that conspiracy their is to point out that experts should be thought of as tools to be used for different purposes. Like any tool, experts can be misused in a variety of ways, including accidental and purposeful.