Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry. - Skin in the Game

see also

• The Era Of The Business Idiot - These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence… They don’t want to plan their kids’ birthday parties. They don’t want to research things. They don’t value culture or art or beauty. They want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy.
• The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray - Thinking gangs observed in prison represent human households.