Experts

How many of us can call ourselves "experts"? What does it even mean to be an expert at something? If you look up expert in a dictionary it says "a person who has a special skill or knowlege in some particular field; specialist; authority." A special skill...lemme see, ooh I can clap with one hand. Once I saw a guy on late night tv stop a fan with his tongue. My cat sometimes gives me high fives. All these skills are special, but I don't think me or the nut job with his face in the fan or even my cat are what you might call experts. How about knowlege in some particular field... Okee dokee I know that yellow and blue make green, the fan guy knows that to stop the fan without getting your face shaved up like a deli ham you must go at it from the front, and my cat has the knowlege that if he bothers me long enough I will pet/feed/change litterbox. Now we have special skills and knowlege in some particular field and still I doubt we will ever be recognized as experts. Authority, ok given by whom exactly? Police officers are recognized as the authority in most civilized communities but are they experts? I doubt if they would catagorize themselves as experts. So where on earth do all the experts come from? And who the heck are "THE EXPERTS" Maybe there are only like 7 experts in the world and every time someone needs an expert opinion they call out the expert squad. I need their number. Everyone else has the number why don't I? Check the paper, "experts say....blah blah blah" Same thing on the news and the radio and talk shows etc...! Everywhere you look the experts are giving information to wealthy companies, and even governments....Hold it, I may be on to something here. If I had a product, or an idea that I wanted to sell to the general public I would need an expert to vouch for me. Thats it, the more loot I was willing to dole out, the more expert opinions I could buy. I think I will try my idea on a small scale just to see if I'm really on the right track here. If I wanted to sell beer I might ask myself who's a beer expert? I know, the 3 guys living in their car down by the tracks. They should be expert enough. they drink all the time and when they aren't drinking they are walking around picking up...wait for it....BEER CANS! Wow these 3 must be the ultimate authority on beer. So lets just say I needed their expert opinion on my beer, I would give them some to try, free of course, and come back later to ask them if they liked it. Next day I could make a commercial with other, different, more beautiful people saying that my beer was judged by THE EXPERTS to be one of the finest beers in the land. Im fairly certain it would work. My point here I think is, why let someone else tell you whats good, or fair, or economically sound? Lets be our own experts for awhile and see how they like that!