Powerful stuff. I looked up Sowell: "Sowell argues that intellectuals, whom he defines as people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas (writers, historians, academics, etc.), usually consider themselves as "anointed", or as endowed with superior intellect or insight with which to guide the masses and those who have authority over them."

I just wrote a post about wisdom practices and Vervaeke has made a study of how self delusion (opposite if wisdom) can be avoided

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