The Media and the Experts - Modernity's Oracle of Delphi

Medium ^ | April 7, 2020 | Joel Northrup

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Situated on mount Parnassus in central Greece lies the city of Delphi. While the city now is mostly ruins, for over a thousand years the ancient world referred to it as the Center of the World. Millions from around the ancient world would flock to the city to inquire of the Oracle. To a select few, the Oracle would sit in the temple of Apollo and give prophecies or answer questions of business, trade, and war. Alexander the Great was said to have visited the Oracle to inquire as to whether he would conquer the world.

While modernity can scoff at the ancient world’s religious practices and beliefs, our world is not far removed from Delphi.

Today, the world has its own class of Oracles. These “Experts” as they are called, are numerous in the fields of statistics, economics, medicine, media, etc. They are what Nassim Taleb calls...

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Delphic Oracle’s Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors
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The oracle of Delphi in Greece was the telephone psychic of ancient times: People came from all over Europe to call on the Pythia at Mount Parnassus to have their questions about the future answered.