The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.
This isn’t a social media thing exclusively of course, I’ve met it in the real world too.
When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.
I’ve dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it’s even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!
And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn’t endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone’s past.
So I’m curious, do some fields experience this more than others?
If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?
Yes but manipulation - while accurate - has a very sinister connotation. So I’d like to push back ever so slightly there lol
Because manipulation is a very sinister thing. You’re deliberately using music to influence and control how another person feels to get a response that benefits you.
Do you think using music in documentaries is morally wrong? Genuinely asking. It seems we are coming at this from very different angles and I just want to establish a baseline here.
Would it be more fair to say: when the music kicks in, the story is being told?
Sure. I’m also definitely trying to elicit a certain response so manipulate isn’t wrong lol but it just sounds so evil and nefarious.
That’s fair, and I might have gone more neutral than intended. I was just curious if that fit what was in your head more.
I mean I’m obviously going to be overly charitable to my work so I’m trying to not be insufferable here lol your language is fair