The Lack of a Peritum Standard

 For those not into Latin....peritum means 'expert'.  

Around ten years ago....I sat one night watching CNN, and they wanted to drill down into some topic and had some 'expert' show up for a 'Q and A' session.  About half-way through the ten minutes, I came to realize that the expert was NOT an expert, and that I probably knew twice as much on the topic as the CNN expert.  

Ever since that point, I'm skeptical of 'experts'.

Between the various news networks, and print-media/social media experts.....I probably see or read a presentation by at least 20,000 experts per year.  To be kinda honest....about 80-percent of them are what I'd call marginal or non-existent experts.

In the days of old Greece or old Rome....maybe in your entire lifetime, you probably only came face-to-face with twenty-odd experts (one of them probably was the village blacksmith).  So you weren't so confronted with so many non-existent experts pretending to know nothing about something. Life was simple.

Today?  You have even social media giants like Facebook and Twitter which have granted themselves 'expert-status', and have the power to collapse or cancel anyone who doesn't rank with their level of expert-status.  In some sense, the world is revolving around a civil war of the 'experts'.....group X against group Y.

In some cases, you even have experts who deem their status because they are experts about the experts in the world.  And in some cases, you have experts who are experts over experts over experts.  

Where this is leading onto?  It's anyone's guess.....but it would seem like....eventually, that some folks would just wake up and just start laughing about this level of experts existing.