Subj : Re: Chelsea
To   : Ron L.
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sat Sep 03 2022 04:26:20

 RL> I've never been someone who worships entertainers.  So what a musician
 RL> says about something non-music-related is pretty much irrelevant.

I wish other people would see it that way but I don't think they do.

 RL> But I get what you say.  Too many people think that an expert in area 1
 RL> automatically means that he's an expert in area 2.  How else can a
 RL> linguist be hailed as a foreign policy expert?  (That's Chomsky, for
 RL> those who don't know.)

It's definitely a common human behavior for people to look up to people who
are experts in their fields, and I think it's also common for people to assume
that these experts are experts at everything. My kid's doctor is a great
doctor, and when he told me which neighborhood he lives in, it made me want to
live in that neighborhood too.

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