Experts are in trouble. And our whole society is in trouble. We don’t know what to believe and our experts often seem to have only a tenuous grasp on reality. These concerns are societal products of late 20th and early 21st Century thought. I would also note that there is a much earlier source: Plato's allegory of the cave.

As a 21st Century Gulliver, I will be passing through three lands on the way to a land of irony. In this essay, I pass through the first two lands: Alpha and Beta.