Reliance on Experts II

One of my brothers, a farmer, invited a youth group from the local church to tour his farm and experience farm life. After working on the farm, he had them eat eggs they had gathered and drink milk after the cows had been milked. 

One young man refused to drink the milk, though he admitted that he drank milk daily at home.

"But it comes from the same place," my brother said.

"No, the milk at the store doesn't come out of any cow," the boy assured him.

"Yes, it does," my brother told him. "Really."

The boy laughed, refusing to be duped by my brother's obvious prank. "No way," the boy said. "The milk I drink every day doesn't come from a cow."

Amazed by the conversation, my brother asked the young man, "Well, then, where does milk come from if not from a cow?"

"I'm not sure," the boy confidently replied. 

"...but they have ways."

They have ways! 

They -- the ever elusive and omnipresent They -- have ways...to do anything we need and take care of us. This may in fact be one of the most profound statements I have ever heard of, and it was made by an unwitting boy who just "knew" that the world's experts would take care of whatever he needed.

Certainly specialization and expertise has done much good for the world, but in some significant ways it appears to have gone too far. The impact on freedom cannot be positive.