Today’s Pill (18): In Politics, They Take Advantage of the Equal Voice Fallacy

“There is a cult of ignorance […] The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political […] life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” (I. Asimov)

The ruling parties take full advantage of the Equal Voice Fallacy (Steve Konves,) which is the appearance that all individuals in a society contribute equally with respect to knowledge, work, capital and validity. When the PM speaks, using a vocabulary of a few hundred words, the social noise has ”trained” most individuals to ignore the experts who consistently achieve success and have a vocabulary of 50k words. She uses terms to mask the voice of experts who document the critical situation we’re in. To achieve expertise, even someone with innate talent needs at least 10k hours of dedicated practice. It’s years of absorbing knowledge that allow experts to deliver solutions, while the outliers struggle even to understand the problems. For an outlier, there is no difference between President I or D, and it’s in the interest of the ruling parties to have as many nobodies as possible, as the ignorance on their side of the table preserves the power.