https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
Great summation of the nature of discourse in the information age, especially online/social media:
I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all.
By Tom Nichols
And new fuel for comment battles (which I do not partake in ever since being on IRC at 12, knowing how that goes and at a time in my life when I thought I knew much about the world but this was in fact true:
the dumber you are [with regards to knowledge on an erudite subject – PJT], the more confident you are that you’re not actually dumb
by Cornell University psychologists David Dunning
(first new post in rebuilding blog, posted link in 26/01/2014 – 10:19 but found so pertinent today that had to add a few details)