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1. Social media has allowed for people w/ no formal training in specific fields to become “experts”. Their expertise isn’t based on any legit accreditation, just group think & faction confirmation bias. We don’t wanna become elitists, but formal education is valuable.
2. It’s valuable because it demonstrates genuine comprehensive investment into a specific field. Someone who invests finances, time, & years of energy into study is likely to be more qualified to speak on an issue than someone who merely ordered a Blue Yeti Microphone off Amazon.
3. It’s one thing to be an historian, philosopher, medical practitioner, theologian, economist, social scientist, etc. who has a Twitter account & quote another to have no educational development in a field but be a “social media” expert on it by virtue of it being your hobby.
4. Y’all gotta stop wasting your emotional, mental, & relational energy engaging faux experts on social media. That Chemist who tweets like a social scientist/Theologian, nah yo. The Pastor who tweets like a medical professional, pass. There’s no such thing as Twitter University.
5. One of the greatest signs of humility a person can express is to “stay in their lane”. Hubris, pride, & arrogance are demonstrated when a person believes they can arise to the status of expert, especially over other actual experts, by sheer force of will & ambition.
6. In fact, wisdom is knowing your lane, staying in it, and looking to others to inform you beyond the realm of your established knowledge & expertise. It is pride and insecurity that leads one to move as if they must be an expert in everything in order to have value in anything.
