Russell identifies something more troubling than mere ignorance: the *confidence gap* that makes incompetence loud while competence whispers. The truly damaging asymmetry isn't that fools exist, but that they traffic in certainty while knowledgeable people are paralyzed by awareness of complexity—think of how confidently misinformed social media users drown out epidemiologists cautiously hedging their findings. What stings about this observation is that it suggests wisdom and humility are nearly inseparable, making expertise simultaneously our best tool and our greatest liability in public discourse.