Yeah, weird conspiracy theorists types can often find experts who agree with them, they are just experts in some other field and don't know anything else.
Most people know the saying "a jack of all trades is a master of none" and use it derisively because they don't know that the full saying is "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
The corollary to which is saying someone knows just enough to be dangerous. I find myself uncaring if the surgeon repairing my injured body just can’t for the life of themselves grow a garden or change their own oil. It’s not why I came to see them and it’s irrelevant to their ability to cut me open and sew me back together again without killing me.
Or in some cases, don't know enough to know what they don't know. That's when Dunning-Kurger kicks in.
I was going to say that believing that he knew nothing worked for Socrates, but they did execute him for being annoying, so maybe not.
My personal feeling is that the more I became an expert in my field, the more I became aware of how much I didn't, and couldn't ever, know.
People only seem to remember the first line (the only example I can think of of someone going as far as the second line as well is from Cosgrove Hall's Wind in the Willows series, where it's quoted by Badger, whose thing is being old and wise and well-educated). But the last 2/3rds of the poem are about getting to know how little you know.Alexander Pope said:
Socrates's trial was in two parts. The first where he defended himself against the charges, and the second where he debated to reduce the sentence.
But then you can't brag to all your rich friends/social media followers about being a part of "the big thing".
