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Ian Wendt - ArticlesIan Wendt is the editor of www.ideologyforum.com an online journal and forum dedicated to exploring, discussing and debating the ideas that shape our world. Ideology Forum is open to the widest array of ideological and political ideas. Its authorship is completely open to all readers and users. He is also an assistant professor of History at an American university. In his writing, research, teaching, and especially on Ideology Forum, Ian strives to expand free speech, political and ideological debate, civic engagement and activism.
The Tryanny of Experts (part Ii) - Experts and Civil SocietyExperts cannot and should not be used to constitute or replace civil society. Indeed, the idea that anyone can claim to be a civil society expert is troubling. Civil society needs to be composed of a broad and diverse array of people throughout our societies. The internet offers us an opportunity to radically expand civil society, to debate all of the ideas and ideologies that shape the world, and to publish our speech around the world. We cannot abandon this field to experts, particularly not the much vaunted experts of civil society. The Tyranny of Experts (part I) - the Limits of ExpertiseExperts can be banal, elitist, authoritarian, biased, ideological, foolish and fallible. We need experts for many things, but we cannot surrender to experts our opportunities - our responsibilities - to engage the world as intelligent, passionate, informed citizens. Indeed, we must break off the tyranny of experts and actively strive to save our corners of the world one idea at a time. Why We SpeakSpeech matters. We speak to let it out. We speak to be heard. We speak to convince. We speak to educate. We speak to find agreement and community. We speak to change the world. The Immorality of Extreme SpeechVulgarity and abusive language are obvious signs of weak, lazy thinking. But more importantly, there is a fundamental immorality to extreme speech. That rhetorical immorality belittles those who have suffered and do suffer real abuse; and extreme speech robs our world of a level of crucial meaning. A Civil Society Bill of RightsI reserve the right to have opinions and passionately advocate them, to believe in idealistic positions, to sometimes be wrong, to change my mind, to compromise, to disagree with others, and to sometimes be silent. Three Questions for the Inactive ActivistWho is responsible for this? What are you going to do about it? If not you, who?
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