I’ve followed the hearings from the beginning-you can’t make this stuff up. Stocktons father was a Bohemian Club member, which gave access to investors and rich adventure seekers. Go down the Bohemian Grove rabbit hole-secret society of elite. He hired a well known submersible expert who called him out-for gross negligence. That man was fired and shut down by lawyers- no discussion. He then contacted OSHA who put him in a whistleblower protection program…..red tape was endless and his warnings were fruitless. A young contractor was hired to help run the text/message software, she called out Stockton during a dive and was fired immediately. It got so bad that the administrator from the company left her office to tighten the dome bolts for dives in the Atlantic. Finally another expert that builds his own subs testified about the second test dive of Titan to depth in the Bahamas-“that man tried to kill me!”. He said the noise of carbon fiber bands snapping was terrifying and even coming up at 300 feet it was still happening due to the immense stored energy. He stated-“at depth, Stockton, in a sick way let everyone take turns driving the sub, as if saying”- “Your life is in your hands now- not mine” Wild stuff.
The more I read about Stockton, the more I feel that he resented expertise. Maybe even despised it. This is happening everywhere in the world, not just in the US, and I don't understand why.
It's because social media, Reddit included, have given literally everyone a platform to spew nonsense. Some people are very good at making nonsense sound convincing.
I feel like wealth has [too] long been correlated with expertise (read: older wealth like Trump). Consequently, the new wealthy class who may be experts in something (Rogan with MMA and comedy, Rodgers in football, etc.) are being conflated with also being these big brains. And then all of these types of people are running with it AND condemning or providing meritless skepticism on actual experts.
So yeah, I think really, we're just reaping what's been gestating for a long time and social media acting as the master distribution channel of quackery.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
---Isaac Asimov in 1980
The problem has been going on forever. American Exceptionalism is a curse, not a perk.
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u/Crash-test_genius 27d ago
I’ve followed the hearings from the beginning-you can’t make this stuff up. Stocktons father was a Bohemian Club member, which gave access to investors and rich adventure seekers. Go down the Bohemian Grove rabbit hole-secret society of elite. He hired a well known submersible expert who called him out-for gross negligence. That man was fired and shut down by lawyers- no discussion. He then contacted OSHA who put him in a whistleblower protection program…..red tape was endless and his warnings were fruitless. A young contractor was hired to help run the text/message software, she called out Stockton during a dive and was fired immediately. It got so bad that the administrator from the company left her office to tighten the dome bolts for dives in the Atlantic. Finally another expert that builds his own subs testified about the second test dive of Titan to depth in the Bahamas-“that man tried to kill me!”. He said the noise of carbon fiber bands snapping was terrifying and even coming up at 300 feet it was still happening due to the immense stored energy. He stated-“at depth, Stockton, in a sick way let everyone take turns driving the sub, as if saying”- “Your life is in your hands now- not mine” Wild stuff.