Post #4003252
2026-07-19 03:00 UTC
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@rancholibertad/116944347497011525
It's funny because this paradigm of being questioned for what our qualifications are at the Ranch, as though we aren't proving pretty significantly that our research and lived experience is foundationally enough and extremely valuable, is the opposite of what I'm met with in response to some of my writing here on esoteric topics.
Where with ecological topics folks are like "you literally cannot think about this if you haven't been significantly trained by the actual 'experts' with PhDs in universities"
With esoteric topics if I say "look, there are no experts, I'm not the expert, but you should think about this deeply" folks are like "you literally should never have the gall to say that I should *think* about anything that I want, because I want it and that's enough".
I feel like we could unpack this pretty heavily but I don't have the bandwidth at this *exact* moment
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@coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social 2026-07-19 16:39
@Siiin@pagan.plus 1) people hate thinking. they love being told what to do because that absolves them (in their minds) of responsibility for their actions. 2) if we all started accepting lived knowledge as expertise then the sham of higher education, which is landlordism with a thin veneer of education, would be shown for what it is and all that money spent on degrees would've been better spent on anything else. the supreme case of buyers remorse. people will kill to avoid confronting this