Re:Experts from a world that no longer exists
by foundart on Saturday November 20, 2021 @11:06AM
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TIL Overton Window: "The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
A very useful concept.
Re:Experts from a world that no longer exists
by aigo on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:29PM
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The window, and the ways political agents try to move it in one direction or another, explains a lot of modern discourse
It intersects with Chomsky's ideas about manufacturing consent quite nicely too
AKA: wisdom. Seek, cherish, and protect that. Wisdom is functional.
'Expertise' is often knowledge if the current/historical state of affairs. When a dam breaks:
> It usually means other parts of the system have evolved in a way that allows what was once impossible to now become practical.
The state of the hardware, the software, and the peopleware at any moment in time is an Overton Window.