Originally Posted by
taai gihk yahn
I would add that, because they can't succeed via the conventions for a given society, they go outside their culture to obtain "expertise" in something that the majority of the society within which they function lacks the means to appropriately evaluate whether or not what they are saying is BS or not (hence all the folks who blithely throw around the concept of "qi" in the "west", who would be laughed at if they tried to get away with it in the "east")
these, BTW, are the folks who typically are the first to dismiss docs as being clueless about, well, anything, really; and sure, there are some bad docs - but the good ones? oh man, if they only knew what goes through these folks minds at a blinding rate when they are faced with certain situations...