1/ rise of experts as symptom of breakdown of societal structures.
for subjects too large, or too long running for one person to reasonably observe, we used to have societal structures to hold memory and form opinions.
now that's offloaded onto experts for hire.
2/ we end up nonsense such as certain draconian measures in the pandemic, varying climate change predictions that always point to one and same solution, and topsy-turvy energy sector policy.
and we are told "only experts can form opinions on those".
3/ note that forcing whole society to act, expeditiously and laboriously, on plans that the society is not convinced to, is immoral and evil.
both directly, and also as creating structures & cultural norms for further such evils.
1/ in XVII century then-modern medicine made childbirth a medical procedure, performed at hospital in standardized manner.
this made systematic one of the risks to the mother - death from "puerperal fever", a bacterial infection that thrived in the serially performed procedure.
2/ the form of the procedure & other hospital work, and the risks to the mother were back then broadly accepted by the medical community.
the risk to the mother was very high by today's standards:
3/ a hungarian doctor proposed in 1847 *washing hands* of the practitioners with an early form of antiseptic as practical way of reducing the risks of mortality to below 1%.
this was supported by his subsequent scientific work, and by observation of the results in the hospital.
2/ we were told of dystopian future "corporations will oppress you in myriad ways". we were baited into giving governments extraordinary powers over corporations
every single thing came to pass - and it's the governments & their NGOs doing it. le pikachu shock face. and no neons