Why are Experts used to Mask a Lack of Leadership? (& thus to frame & capture puppets)

in response to the themes in:

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/03/09/why-do-we-have-experts/

The concept of mastering a skill or field of endeavour is quite different from touted or self acclaimed experts. 

Ivan Illich remains relevant to illuminate the false turns that set up the tragic fall.

Clip from 

Part Moon Part Travelling Salesman: Conversations With Ivan Illich 

(David Cayley)
This distinction between liberal and dominant professions was important to Illich. It identified the watershed between a time when professional services were essentially optional and a time when they became virtually mandatory. And this transition was abetted, he went on, by those who sought to professionalize the roles of consumer and client.
Ivan Illich:
Professionals could not have become dominant in society unless people were ready to experience as a lack what the expert imputes to them as a need. It is only during the last twenty years that Comfort and Spock and some Nader pupils teach people how to identify and describe to themselves with almost professional competence the needs which professionals have defined for them. To be ignorant or unconvinced of one’s own needs thus became the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is he who imputes staple needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, including the renunciation to needs.
Ideas
(David Cayley)
Part of Illich’s concern with professionalism came from the way in which he saw it substituting for the participatory politics which he hoped to foster. When people begin to think of themselves as clients and consumers, he said, they often cease to think of themselves as citizens, and politics then becomes nothing more than the adjudication of competing claims for professional services.

You can listen to the series as podcast in 5 parts.
https://www.davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/11/6/part-moon-part-travelling-salesman-conversations-with-ivan-illich
& or download the transcript (seek the title in the page)
https://www.davidcayley.com/transcripts


Unless we zoom out or expand your focus, we suffer the results of the outsourcing our life to a systemic replacement by what we are trained to mask in our own frame of thinking.
The emperor is naked.
But WHO told you you were lacking, susceptible, vulnerable, culpable & in need of a booster?