How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil
By Josh Stylman June 23, 2025
This isn’t just politics or algorithm nonsense; it’s the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing.
Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives. The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in “The Illusion of Expertise,” we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence. Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil.
Specialization has made us passive, watching life happen while trusting the credentialed. But they’re cogs too, trapped in a machine they don’t see. Understanding this reveals the deeper architecture: specialization connects to other systems of manufactured dependency—fiat currency that separates us from real value, digital convenience that erodes our capabilities, spectator culture that makes us passive consumers. Each system reinforces the others, creating a web that requires seeing the whole picture to break free.
The way out is radical responsibility. Stop outsourcing your thinking. The path forward begins with recognizing that what we’ve been taught to value as ‘expertise’ has been weaponized against us. Questioning institutional narratives isn’t a sign of ignorance but a necessary act of intellectual sovereignty. When an expert tells you something, ask: Who benefits? What’s hidden? What would another field say?
Be the generalist. See the system. The truth depends on it. The future won’t be saved by the most credentialed. It’ll be saved by those who can see clearly—and refuse to look away.
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