In the 2020 U.S. election, not only the left and right sides of the United States will face each other, but a civil war will break out at any time. Even Hong Kong will be divided into "we board" and "we invade". For a time, it is more intense than the battle between yellow and blue. We can only let different foreign news media stimulate emotions, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and scolding and fighting, as if with the ups and downs of the information wave, the driftwood in each of our hands, unable to control ourselves, seems to collide with each other.
Logically, at this time, we should listen to the views of international relations and political experts. In fact, they also expressed their opinions photo background removing on this incident. Shen Xuhui urged Hong Kong people not to be divided for the general election , and Liang Qizhi discussed whether it is possible to generate votes in the US election . However, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, but it seems that there are many people who are not convinced, and each ignites the fire in a small circle, and the debate continues endlessly. Our doubts about experts are not out of a healthy psychology. We are chasing and killing experts out of hatred, including many people who believe that experts are equal to mistakes. On the one hand, we wait on experts with endless boos and vilify them with the newly popular term "egg-headed scholar", and on the other hand, we choke directly in front of them.
With doctors, we say to them which medicines we need to prescribe; with educators, we insist that the answers on our children's test papers are correct (no wonder). None of us agree because we all feel like the smartest person ever. How is the distance between experts and us linked? Soviet expert and professor Tom Nichols published "The Death of Expertise" in 2017, discussing the phenomenon of "anti-expertise" in the United States, and eloquently analyzed human psychological traits, the commercialization of contemporary higher education, and the Internet age. influence, media entertainment, and the fall of experts. Although the book is based in the United States, in the current era of so-called Western cultural hegemony and globalization, there seem