You should feel free to go on as much as you like. So there is no confusion, I meant the term neo-isolationism exactly as I used it.
Please define your terms. Isolationism vs. Neo-isolationism. It would seem to me a difference of nothing more than a Greek prefix indicating span in a time domain.
Knowledge and experience applies to every subject. If I have a foundation leak, I am far more interested in what a professional plumber with years of experience might think than my neighbor. If I am facing a lawsuit, you better believe that I will turn to the most experienced and capable law firm that I can find. If I am attending a course at university, I am counting on that professor to have broad knowledge and experience in his field.
We have the good fortune to have any number of people participating in this discussion with broad engagement in many aspects of this general subject matter. Most are also well read. I don't always agree with their assertions or beliefs, but I absolutely respect the basis of their opinions. I assure you that respect has nothing to do with khakis and blue blazers and everything to do with their knowledge and life experience. In short, I respect them.
5-6 years ago, I would have backed you completely on both of these paragraphs. Excepting the country club blue blazer reference. And you'll notice that was a reference to never trumpers and not people on this board per se.
Since then, I have witnessed the majority of what i will loosely refer to as institutions behaving like a sea cucumbers and lemmings. I.e., they turned themselves inside out and committed mass suicide.
Client attorney privilege - gone
Doctor patient privilege - gone
Doxing by the media
Doxing by the academia
Doxing & de-platforming by social media (I refer to them as anti-social media)
Doxing and persecution of political unsavories by the IRS and federal agencies
Banks actively spying on and un-banking customers
Countries in cahoots with banking companies (publicly traded no less!) freezing and on occasion seizing customer assets (Russian treasuries and Canadian truckers)
Federal agencies in a Christianity founded republic actively targeting and persecuting Christians
Medical industry with VERY few exceptions propagating a complete hoax and persecuting those that stood up to question the official narrative
Medical associations canceling hard-won certifications and licenses of doctors for challenging the narrative on a federal agency referring to an anti-malarial drug (that won a nobel prize no less) as horse de-wormer.
Same for the education industry.
Psychology institutions systematically eliminating dissenters over 6-7000 year old common sense understandings of sex and gender.
I'm sure there are some fine fellas on here and largely I like reading what they have to say. Common interests and what not.
But my awarding of credence based on associations and credentials has become so degraded that I've moved beyond Reagan's words of trust but verify. I'm at "don't trust and attempt to verify and then still don't trust."
This isn't knee-jerk. It's objective and frankly, sad. The institutions of the West have grown into the envy of the world until very recently. Now they're banana republic.
Caveat polités if you'll forgive my slang Greek
