My theory is far fewer people these days know how the things they use daily work and as a result technology has become magic to them. They are now dependent on “experts” to understand for them instead of evaluating and thinking for themselves. If the experts say man is causing global warming, it must be so. They have become thought sheep.
It's more like
"If the [some claiming to be] experts, [and supported by an equally ignorant MSM] say man is causing global warming, it must be so. They have become revealed themselves to be ignorant] thought sheep.
I am a life scientist, and know in great detail how living things function. Yet, in the fairly recent past, I put in a request to our IT people about the light on the front of my computer being red when it is usually green, forcing me to restart the computer. Yes, I was embarrassed to complain about the light color, but I had no clue what was actually wrong with the computer. However, our IT tech knew immediately what was wrong and fixed it in about 2 minutes. (Yay IT people!)
In my previous post, I was not commenting on the amount of knowledge any one person has, but on the ability to sift through and analyze knowledge. You don't need to be an expert in anything to know how to think. Yet thinking is a skill that I see lacking far too often.