Posted on 04/30/2020 3:06:06 PM PDT by spirited irish
In his 1930 book The Revolt of the Masses, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset addresses what he considers to be a strange byproduct of the prevalence of specialization in everything, specifically the intellectual sphere. “Previously,” he writes, “men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other.” Now, however, a new kind of person has emerged, “an extraordinarily strange kind of man,” who cannot be called “learned for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his specialty,” yet at the same time cannot be considered “ignorant because he is ‘a scientist’ who ‘knows’ very well his own tiny portion of the universe.” Thus, Ortega y Gasset says that the only fitting name for such a person is a “learned ignoramus.”
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This is close to what I call Assumed Competence/Excellence.
People will assume that because a person is competent/excellent in one area that they will automatically be competent/excellent in another area or in everything.
already have a term that approxiamtes
idiot savant
so many are competent in a tiny sliver of an area, the rest of their lives is a total mess
Dad called them “highly educated idiots”.
“idiot savant”
Not idiot savant. Dunning–Kruger effect. Example above.
I trust Fauci about as far as I can throw a Buick!
One of the finest compliments I ever received was when a colleague—himself multitalented—introduced me to a group as “a true Renaissance man”.
Better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little.
It may well be that the modern cult of experts, aka “learned Ignoramus’” gave rise to that particular humor we enjoy so much: How many “learned ignoramus’” does it take to change a light bulb?”
aka an “expert”
ex = a has-been
spurt = drip under pressure
Looking through a microscope to find your way across the street.
I’m not writing about Rainman levels of Disability.
An Idiot Savant functions at the idiot level most of the time.
I’m writing about people such as entertainers who believe they also have excellence in administration or foreign affairs.
Dr. Fraud is a Hilliary Loving Deep State Coup PLOTTER and MAYBE even something WORSE!!
The modern term is overeducated shit-head.
As an attorney my experience with experts is that most of them are either idiots or liars.
Mary Ann Glendon called them “semi-educated knowledge workers.”
Another name for 'peter' is 'dick' which seems more appropriate for Fauci.
This assumes that a person like Faucci is acting in good faith. What if he’s just shilling for an agenda? If that’s the case, he’s doing a great job of advancing that agenda. What if he’s more dishonest than incompetent?
And full of bluff, braggadocio, bluster, and a gigantic, outsized ego and sense of self-importance.
Except for brain surgery, wiring-up nukes and flying the SR-71 Blackbird. Heh.
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