Yesterday's Experts

David St. Lawrence, in his blog: Ripples has a wonderful post on "Yesterday's Experts."

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Yesterday's Experts - woefully out of touch

Who are they?

"Yesterday's experts" are those who have risen to the top of their profession by hard work and then, satisfied by the approval of their peers, stopped learning about new things. Yet they continued making judgements about things they obviously didn't understand.

You do not want to become "yesterday's expert", because you can go down in history as a dunderhead of record when you make predictions about upcoming events. (more in Ripples)

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Yesterday's experts, of course, got us into the state we are now in, including the atom bomb, the continual state of war, worldwide poverty and lack of human rights, soaring worldwide incarceration in prisons, where (by the way) criminals are not reformed, but are drugged and turned into confirmed criminals if they weren't before, schools that drug children out of any deviation from the sullen norm.

Yesterday's experts include, unfortunately, our scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, Government officials and think tank "experts", and intellectuals, all of whom seem to place more credence on what other "experts" think than on the evidence before their own eyes.

L. Ron Hubbard, writing a little booklet for broad distribution called "The Way to Happiness" states in Chapter 17:

"See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see.

"What you observe is what you observe. Look at things and life and others directly, not through any cloud of prejudice, curtain of fear or the interpretation of another."

Well, that would be a start, wouldn't it. Look. Then imagine what an IDEAL world would be like. Compare the existing with the ideal. Not too nice, is it?  Imagine if we could achive the ideal world. Well, we can. But it starts with each individual having the ability to think for himself.