This post begs the question of when we assign authority to someone. For example, I don’t usually take the pope very seriously, even though by many standards he is a high authority; But Carl Sagan rocks. But if I listen ever so slightly more to the Sagan than to the pope (which isn’t true: I don’t listen even a little to the pope); when did I decide that? I mean, if I only assign authority to the people who already agrees with me and share my worldview, in’t that a short trip to the happy death spiral?
This post begs the question of when we assign authority to someone. For example, I don’t usually take the pope very seriously, even though by many standards he is a high authority; But Carl Sagan rocks. But if I listen ever so slightly more to the Sagan than to the pope (which isn’t true: I don’t listen even a little to the pope); when did I decide that? I mean, if I only assign authority to the people who already agrees with me and share my worldview, in’t that a short trip to the happy death spiral?