La sfida democratica tra partecipazione e incompetenza

The American writer Tom Nichols says that today there is a real ‘cult of one’s own ignorance’. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge and yet exercised so much resistance to learning anything. There has been the growth of a decidedly large base of ignorance in the apical phase of the information age that marks, the narrative of a narcissistic subculture with a perverse feeling of fundamentalist egalitarianism. We are in the age of disintermediation and monologue is the problematic aspect at this historical moment. A death spiral is developing between expertise and democracy. The relationship between experts and citizens, like almost all relationships in a democracy, is based on trust. When this collapses, experts and laymen go to war.