Thomas Harrington: ‘The Treason of the Experts’ and the Cudgels of ‘Disinformation’ and ‘Misinformation’
American Thought Leaders - Un podcast de Jan Jekielek
What happens when large swathes of society stop trying to make sense of the world themselves and simply defer to “experts”? What happens when those “experts” actually have no moral grounding or sound scientific reasoning? And what happens when young people are trained to self-censor to the point that they don’t even notice that that’s what they’re doing?In this episode, we sit down with Thomas Harrington, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute and author of the new book, “The Treason of the Experts: COVID and the Credentialed Class.”“There seems to be almost a perversion and a joy in making us obey and be compliant for compliance’s sake,” Harrington says.We discuss what Harrington sees as the infantilization of society, the techniques of information warfare, and the cudgels of “disinformation” and “misinformation.”
