Experts Deserve No Deference
Overturning Chevron is my favorite SCOTUS decision so far.
One of the worst arguments someone can invoke is, Trust the experts.
Of all the logical fallacies and gaslighting tactics, appeals to authority are some of the most insidious. While there are experts who truly care about you, most experts care primarily for themselves. And many don’t mind shitting on you to get ahead. This is the nature of people in positions of power.
Using the opinions of influential figures as evidence to support your arguments is lazy and problematic for a number of reasons but the biggest problem I can see is that appeals to authority give those authority figures too much power and control over your life and result in people like Anthony Fauci declaring, “I am the Science.”
What bullshit.
Folks upset at the overturn of Chevron largely cite the fact that this decision may slow bureaucracy to a crawl, rendering alphabet agencies ineffective, and have wide-ranging consequences for government functions. But this is precisely why this SCOTUS decision is so important:
The government is so out of control it’s become a kraken sinking the American Dream.
Unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats have effectively been deciding public policy outside of congressional approval since 1984, which is unconstitutional. And since that time, Americans have seen regulation after regulation while realizing increased taxes without net benefits. This is unsustainable at best and crests into schadenfreude at worst.
The path to prosperity, freedom, and wellness for all lies in heavily paring back the role of government in our daily lives. Competent adults should be making decisions for themselves based on the information they have available to them — even if they ultimately decide to take the fake snake oil.
Because make no mistake about it:
Survival of the fittest is alive and well today, except the government and its oligarchic cronies decide who the fittest are and who gets left behind to be eaten by bears.
Call me crazy, but I think we, the people, should be making our own decisions.
And we don’t need gaslighting via appeals to authority to make good ones.
♥ Fal
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Your pieces always make me think just a bit harder about what's being said.
We are on the same wavelength. I worked for several days on my latest post all about Fauci and the collusion between government and the mainstream media. I had to look up kraken, "a gigantic tentacled sea monster of Scandinavian myth. Mythical krakens are now thought of as giant squid or octopuses, capable of bringing down a ship with their tentacled arms. But many of the earliest kraken reports were of creatures so enormous that they grew vegetation on their backs like islands."