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Jonathan Keats, conceptual artist and experimental philosopher, reminds us that the heart of progress resides within the curious amateur: those of us who are not encumbered or restrained by the rigidity and dogma of professionalization. This important fact is often forgotten and/or actively suppressed in technocratic plutocracies where the cult of the expert serves to disempower the public.