I agree with all you present here. In fact, I could have written this post (in my own words of course!) and chosen the exact same points you put across.

We no longer laud the ‘experts’ because of their expertise. We think that all should have the opportunity to become experts and we tout that if they are appointed as experts, they own the expertise that comes with the appointment – whatever their experience actually amounts to.

We want to (over)simplify everything so that it lies easy in the mind – which is why a complex thing such as the behaviour of the learning brain is summarised in a few trite maxims that you list here.

I put it down to postmodernism (or postmodern attitude) and to postmodern behaviour – two different, though related aspects of the communities we call ’society’.

Catchya later