WND EXCLUSIVE
'SHMEXPERTS' BLASTED AS 'PC GATEKEEPERS'
'We have a founded a new faith, one not based on spirituality'
The modern media is filled with “experts” who don’t seem to know very much about what they are talking about. Now, a self-described “average, working-class guy” has risen up to confront what he calls the “new religion” of faux sophistication.
Marc Fitch, an author, novelist, and WND contributor, challenges the priesthood of the new faith in “Shmexperts: How Ideology and Power Politics Are Disguised As Science.”
He argues those called experts have far too much influence in our society and it is time to start “brushing some of it off.”
“We have a founded a new faith, a new religion, one not based on spirituality or on faith necessarily but one supposedly based on science,” Fitch told WND. “And we elected people who we deem the most rational and the most intelligent among us to serve as the priests and prophets of this new faith. Unfortunately, humankind, individuals, are at their very core irrational beings. We all are. We all have beliefs for which we cannot offer up scientific proofs or evidence that prove what we believe.”
Fitch argues even those speaking in the name of science are irrational at heart.
“From your Baptist preacher to your particle physicist, everyone has core beliefs they cannot support with science,” he claimed. “That makes us faith based, irrational people.”
When such people claim to speak in the name of objective science and rationality, the result can be tyranny and thought control, he said.
“When an irrational person claims to have the key to life, the rational plan by which we are supposed to live our lives, they make themselves into a prophet of this new faith in science,” Fitch explained. “That person can ultimately be dangerous and misguided. It’s an arrogance that comes from belief in yourself as being the ultimate arbiter of reality, rather than humility, which teaches us that oftentimes we can’t prove something but we still maintain our faith and our beliefs.”
Fitch argues those whom the media often call “experts” simply act as “politically correct gatekeepers” who impose only one point of view on the culture.
Paraphrasing Henry Kissinger’s observation that experts are simply those educated in the prevailing opinion, Fitch said many of the things conservatives hate about the media, universities, and other institutions can be explained by examining the way “expertise” is promoted.
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"If the prevailing opinion is political correctness, then we have experts who are being vastly employed in universities across the nation to tell you what is and is not offensive," Fitch stated. "Not only what is and is not offensive, but how to cure somebody who has been offended and make sure nobody else is offended in the future. To tell us how we are supposed to think. The expert comes in and says this is how we are going to talk to each other, this is how we are supposed to think, and it's going to be based on this politically correct ideology.
And they say, I'm your expert, I'm your guy, you are going to pay me a bunch of money to do this. And that alone makes that person an expert."
What's left out in the search for "expertise," said Fitch, is the truth.
He explained: "It's whoever has been educated in the prevailing ideas. But what about outside ideas? What about new ideas? What about people who just say no to those ideas? Now suddenly, the experts give them short shrift."
Fitch said he wrote the book when he kept noticing how often the expectations of experts didn't meet the facts.
"Who are they representing?" Fitch asked. "Because they were getting everything wrong and telling us things should be good when things were actually bad. So I began thinking, 'Why are we listening to these experts?' And as I began investigating a little bit more, I found 'expert' is often just a moniker the media gives people who support a particular ideology or a particular way of thinking.'"
This has huge consequences for American society, even when it comes to something as important as presidential politics. Fitch contended the rise of "outsider" candidates such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the Republican Party and Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party is a perfect example of how many people are looking for answers beyond the supposedly "acceptable" alternatives.
"[Experts] create a box and if you're out of that box, you're not paid attention to," explained Fitch. "So you've got someone like Bernie Sanders, you've got someone like Donald Trump. And experts are saying 'these guys are not electable' but they keep rising in the polls, they keep getting voters, and they keep kind of beating the odds. But really, the odds are in their favor."
Fitch says the heart of the problem is our culture's inability to understand the real source of wisdom. While we are told it lies in academic qualifications and professional standing, Fitch says the truly wise gain their knowledge from experience.
"It's not that you are always going to find more wisdom in 'Joe the plumber' than 'Joe the expert,'" he cautioned. "But someone being called an expert doesn't always give them wisdom, it doesn't make them automatically wise. You can turn around and you can find wisdom in the average ordinary Joe or Jane.
"People have life experiences and challenges and rising to meet those challenges is what gives somebody wisdom. It gives them bits of truth they can pass on to other people. You can't get that from a degree. You can't graduate college at 22 or 23 years and say I am now wise. Wisdom comes from a place of struggle, a place of spirituality, from the soul. And 22 or 23 years old you're not going to have that kind of experience."
One of the most important themes in Fitch's book is the value of humility. This virtue, Fitch said, is something often missing from the "experts" who presume to tell people how to live their lives.
"Just because you're educated in something doesn't mean that you're going to have had the humility necessary to understand the lessons life has brought to your door," Fitch told WND. "So much of being a 'shmexpert' is about arrogance. And what the book tries to teach is that we need humility to truly learn about the chaos and complexity of our world."
For that reason, Fitch embraces an irreverent approach, jokingly dismissing today's "experts" as just "shmexperts." And he says the reason people should embrace his message is because he's writing for the common man. After all, he's one of them.
"People will often ask, 'Oh, are you an expert on experts?'" he joked. "No, I'm just a normal guy."
He told WND he wrote the book because, as a family man, he had concerns about the future direction of the culture and the country.
"The reason why I'm the right person to write "Shmexperts: How Ideology and Power Politics Are Disguised As Science" is because I'm nobody. I'm just kind of an average, working class guy. You don't need to be somebody. You don't need to be an expert. You don't need to have multiple degrees to have an opinion that counts and is valid on so many of these important issues."
And because he’s living those issues, just like his readers, Fitch believes he is the man to lead the new rebellion against the tyranny of the "shmexperts."
"I'm just like everybody else," he said.
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/shmexperts-blasted-as-pc-gatekeepers/#rihV2wlFqWYzZJRY.99My comments: The THRUST of the "New Religion" is to Discredit God and His Word. The people of the "New Religion" are godless, Socialist, Secular Humanists. In Fact, it is Very Spiritual, just as Satan telling Eve: "Did God Really Say?"--Is Spiritual and set the Course of Mankind from that moment forward. Today the "New Religion" is preparing mankind to Receive the Beast of Revelation 13, the Antichrist.
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