The Unexamined Critic and the Boundary of Incompleteness
Thomas Sowell famously remarked that the best thing about attending Harvard is that you are neither intimidated nor impressed by people who went there. Yet this aphorism reveals the trap of inverse credentialism: by treating the credential as the prerequisite for anti-credentialism, it quietly fortifies the very hierarchy it mocks. Outsiders are dismissed as sour grapes, while only the anointed insider is granted the license for disenchantment.
Put more directly, isn't the critic doing the exact thing being criticized? Denouncing intellectuals who trade in ungrounded rhetoric without facing…
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