• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks
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    1 month ago

    Experts should stay in their lane. Being good at one things doesn’t transfer to everything. Besides, Idiocracy was even more prophetic.

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      1 month ago

      You should probably read the whole book this is from. It’s called ‘A Deamon-haunted World’.

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        I’m familiar. And this particular quote equates the service economy with superstition. So, yeah, I think he should stick with physics and education. Turn this up to eleven and you get Niel deGrasse Tyson, who should also shut up about things he’s not an expert about.