Economy
In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Reminisce: Black Monday October 19, 1987-2012 [View all]bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)It's about not expecting them to know everything. "Everything" is just too complicated. Even were we all not trying to live our lives - work, keep house, raise children, fulfill other familial and friend and social obligations, we could not understand everything. And that everything is so complicated is, itself, in service to Capitalism, which would not be borne were its inevitable rapacious outcomes understood.
When we acquiesce to the demand that we "understand" multiple disciplines - everyone of which requires a lifetime of study in itself - we are defeated before we begin.
Ordinary people can understand that we need clean air, water, and food. That hunger amid abundance is wrong. That killing children is wrong.
The failure of our "elites" to articulate how these values are or are not reflected in labyrinthine policies leaves ordinary people to rely on intuition, appearance, superstition, "strong men" and other ghouls and vampires.