If you’re looking for true expertise, then look no further than Substack. I know this because I have my own Substack. Sure, I don’t have a degree — or, for that matter, any formal training or education in any given subject—but what I do have is expertise in how to post and market my own ideas. See, Substack attracts its own experts because its users have a self-selection bias towards their own shared brilliance.
I mean, just setting up a Substack account takes a certain level of intelligence. You have to know how to enter your name and email address into the proper fields when you register, and you need the prerequisite knowledge of how to confirm the aforementioned email address.
Once you get past those hurdles, you get access to all of the illuminating genius your amateurish mind can handle. The real outside-the-box authorities — the ones who are doing literal galaxy-brained thinking — are on Substack. It’s a platform by the people, for the people. You won’t find discussions on the wisdom of Bill Cooper or Andrew Wakefield in newspapers. You can’t even use the phrase “official narrative of the Moon Landing” without being repudiated as a nutjob by Round-Earthers filled with vaccine microchips.
Speaking of hastily dismissed philosophers, the amount of flak that Substack gets for allowing Nazis is troublingly high. Some Nazis — the not-terrible ones — are political scholars, yet are censored by traditional media outlets. Substack isn’t just Nazis, though. It’s also for those who, to borrow from the literary genius Voltaire, disingenuously defend Nazis to the death, even if they disagree with them. I’m no fan of Hitler, but I’m willing to concede he had some good ideas, because being an expert requires an open mind.
In other words, you have to see both sides. Indeed, for the stated thesis to be valid, the opposite of it must also be valid: If I didn’t have a Substack, then I wouldn’t be an expert, and, therefore, I wouldn’t be able to properly label myself an expert on my nonexistent Substack. It’s a perfect circle of logic. Checkmate, sheeple.