Free Republic

Serious question: Are those things which the expert class mandates considered to be right because they mandate it, or do the experts mandate it because it is right? (Adapted from Plato, Euthyphro) I am not even asking why the experts themselves make mandates or prescriptions, despite their hints of a god-complex. I am asking why the masses wholeheartedly embrace such mandates. Because what was once a Socratic question directed at the pantheon of gods has ironically become applicable to our modern pantheon of human “experts.” Faith and religion have not been sidelined. Instead, they have been dethroned from the Heavens...