Stills seem to me like there is a confusion here between "expertise as research experience" and guild-formation and its rent-seeking proclivities in the professions that consult, in competition with more local experience, or in step with local inexperience (AKA the fear).
The error lies in thinking one can throw money at stuff in the first place, usually to avoid responsibilities (of judgement, of outcomes). Scammers always target your weakness of will. A market arises for those avoiding effort, the labour of knowing.
Trust is (should be) an effort. A labour of discernment, that mix of knowledge and its suspension. (all values are an effort)
Ressentiment is also a choice, an emotional effort that rejects responsibility, often gnostically framed (even as they reject the experts, they have a higher knowledge), but more often tribally in the name of some identity, some hurt, something that stops you from having agency outside of rejecting responsibility.
Pain becomes a currency for payback for something that never happened. Trust is not a coin however.
Trust is the exchange. It is the thing of the world.
Made a note to quote from this in a piece I'm working on about the confusion of instrumental & procedural knowledge with wisdom.
Stills seem to me like there is a confusion here between "expertise as research experience" and guild-formation and its rent-seeking proclivities in the professions that consult, in competition with more local experience, or in step with local inexperience (AKA the fear).
The error lies in thinking one can throw money at stuff in the first place, usually to avoid responsibilities (of judgement, of outcomes). Scammers always target your weakness of will. A market arises for those avoiding effort, the labour of knowing.
Trust is (should be) an effort. A labour of discernment, that mix of knowledge and its suspension. (all values are an effort)
Ressentiment is also a choice, an emotional effort that rejects responsibility, often gnostically framed (even as they reject the experts, they have a higher knowledge), but more often tribally in the name of some identity, some hurt, something that stops you from having agency outside of rejecting responsibility.
Pain becomes a currency for payback for something that never happened. Trust is not a coin however.
Trust is the exchange. It is the thing of the world.