Cults of Expertise

Let's take a look at pharisaic cults of expertise.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Of all our conjured cycles, two most prominently feature in the last 35k years on this planet: Atlantis and Lemuria.

They are two instantiations of an older, Platonic meta-pattern. A meta-pattern is a pattern of patterns, which is in this instance fractal in its repeating nature across context scales. My first encounter with this on my own track were the reality wars. To this day, it expresses as control of others' inflow and outflow, often encoded in moral systems or control scripts, and usually, in this stage of our collective degradation, attribution of "authoritative source" controlling right and proper use of symbols. 

One example of this is control on free speech, compellation of what things are called by whom, and when. The "keepers of the true knowledge" dramatization -- true history, true science, true tradition, true news, true religion -- echoes this reality war, usually accompanying administrative hierarchies doling out permissions. 

In the secular, atheistic, global humanist (and increasingly anti-human) Boomer religion of pretend inclusion, only the Experts know, and they should be consulted before resolving to think or feeling anything at all. In Lemuria, only legitimate, proper castes were sanctioned to participate in various rituals and communication, a phenomena hence echoed in Hinduism, Catholicism, Freemasonry, Scientology, and the Occult Order of the Golden Dawn. It's the same thing, however: Self-perpetuating systems of bureaucracy to advance and legitimize controls on inflow and outflow.

As Geoffrey Filbert puts it, without controls on free speech on health and healing, mankind would have denied all the benefits of the crucifixion of Christ.

This meta-pattern in 21st Century U.S. life features an additional inversion, orthogonal to the last cycle of "known=conjured" reality, because why not dig the hole deeper? 

On the body level are the pharmaceutical companies whose legions of do-gooder physicians and psychiatrists drug people into dependence, depression, hopelessness, and oblivion. The only way most psychologists and U.S. medical staff can cause any effect is by affecting physiological meat systems with powerful drugs and cutting them with knives.

Academic cults of expertise accomplish similar hacksaw effects with mind, from accreditation boards to the pretend "scientific" journals that, like most colleges, have been hollowed out to convey lies. Like Denslow's strawman, who is said to have gained a brain once handed a degree, cults of expertise have a fantastical dramatization going where they masturbate each other with "not withheld approval" in journals worthy of  pretending at competence as if wearing their daddy pants make them men. 

The insidiously incestual mental decay of the American academic expert is a subject of much mirth and ridicule among normal, functioning people. You can't find much about it in expert-sanctioned Pharisee or Sadducee annals of that monolith entitled "the academic literature." (You can't find the proverbial Essenes anywhere in the journals, because they're either dead or in hiding.) Anyways, they usually just sit around thinking about impractical abstractions and feeling things, provided  that they keep getting paid by government pundits through the Department of Education and National Institutes of Health. Money and the right to miseducate kids into becoming angry, ineffectual social troll victims is their cup of tea. 

As a result, many people have lost the ability to discern between truth and hate. This is likely  because truth disrupts lies, and since they've identified with being lies, their resulting disorientation and overwhelm causes meltdowns. They feel like they're being unmocked. Hence, the wild projection of responsibility away from self, usually with potentiating end of preventing any outflow of truth -- people lie more and more about everything, and society degrades into a totalitarian state of monsters empowered by pooled individual abdication. There's the darker band of our 20th Century in a nutshell.

So, the state of education is in a very sorry state, with climbing illiteracy rates, particularly among the poor, and that was before the COVID-adjacent shutdowns of terrified Baby Boomers, whose godawful policies wrought incalculable damage on children around the world to save a few million of themselves. Honestly, damage from the COVID fiasco was 20% virus and 80% garbage policy. It mixed people up so much that, shortly after, the idiot class starting burning things in the name of civility, racially discriminating in the name of inclusion, and chemically castrating children out of "empathy" to placate their crazy parents and teachers.

It'll get worse. Among other things, academics continue training doctor druggers to inject unnecessary vaccines into infants, and to question this state of affairs means that you are bad because reasons... and science. Remember, it's dangerous to question good, true, right scientists, and they'll tell you who those good, true, right scientists are -- everyone else is lying, misguided, or terrible. 

Who are the trustworthy experts safeguarding the truth of the universe? Easy. Just look at whom the overseeing panel of good, true, right scientists are publishing in their journals, and conform.

Make no mistake -- This will continue so long as government remains complicit in academics playacting "progressive hero victim" scripts, as long as career politicians pay for their silly declarations of what should be. What should be "equal" (or, technically "not unequal") and who should be qualified ("not unqualified") to have an opinion on any matter. You have a perspective on history without a (state-)sanctioned degree? How dare you profane The Science(tm), because ::puffs marijuana:: it's real, man! 

Academic scientists characteristically love shoulding over anyone and everything in the name of safety, health, and science. That's how you can tell they're charlatans.

In all fairness, the "only" thing that materialistic cult of experts demands is unquestioning fealty to their personal discriminations, that day by day they should be able to define what is true for you and all "sane, non-hateful, non-conspiracy theorist" good little boys and girls. They will tell you with whom Oceania is (and has always been) at war, and what you should think and feel you. If you duplicate their lies, they'll give you an "A"; duplicate enough and you become a strawman with a brain. Just let them win the reality war 100% of the time and never originate anything without permission.

Refuse the game, and you remain a dirty, ignorant undesirable caste pleb.

To give the devil his due, bankers and others who gain fortunes of green and gold by sanctioned criminality do everything possible to elect career politicians who'll help sink the academics' insatiable fangs of debt and drug dependence into impressionable, stupid Boomers and their youngers. 

This parallels Will Durant's point that "most governments have been oligarchies--ruled by a minority, chosen either by birth, as in aristocracies, or by a religious organization, as in theocracies, or by wealth, as in democracies." That hard Left politics have so eroded the separation of church and state as to legitimize gay marriage in California after voters there said no, and to advance the insane dogma that men can be women because feelings, Durant's observation might have us wondering what a theocratic democracy might look like if not when Biden's wife was president. 

We'll see where it goes once most of the Boomers die off in the next couple decades, but those with history degrees (and knowing only lies) have so miseducated others on history that we'll likely court another ruinous tango with failed communism or socialism. Unless the globalist cabal succeeds with a massive, depopulating world war. I'm unsure what flavor of "progressive help" is worse.

So, in summary, training people who believe they are bodies, minds, or emotions on unworkable ideas makes everything worse for everyone, perhaps most of all those whose evil buys them material goods. After all, it is quite difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because he gets quite caught in the lies of his winning. Losers either displace responsibility away from self or improve their condition.