The age of unwanted expertise.

[arpad]

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Religious people often say that sound doctrine is of low importance - changing your life is what important.

Funny - but recently I began to think the same about so called "expertise". The net is filled by endless discussions of everything. Being observer become commonplace. Hundreds of reviews follows every book or movie. Professional forums thrive...

But without acting this is, well, useless.

Comments

[wildernesscat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's like those photographers who can argue about the best lens for days and days, but never take a single picture.

[vorona.livejournal.com]

I've been having similar feelings, watching endless nattering which seems to be getting increasingly bitter, pissy, and grumpy. Being an "expert" on trivia does not seem to make people very happy, or give them the ability to connect with others emotionally. It's not attractive anymore, at least to me.

At this point, I tense up when someone describes himself or herself as a "geek," because my experience with "geeks" is more and more of this nattering, hostile pissiness about who's the biggest expert on things. I don't dislike geeks/nerds for being SMART. I dislike them when they have such lousy social skills that they bore me to death or act pissy and hostile and make me feel bad. I'm tired of all this know-it-all culture without kindness, consideration, empathy... social skills!

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Actually, real geeks lack social skills, but usually aren't aggressive/rude. The real problem are wanna be geeks that mask their insufficient professionalism by talking bold :)

[vorona.livejournal.com]

The real problem are wanna be geeks

Aha. And there seem to be so many of those lately. Maybe they're trying to cash in on geek chic?