Website review: 21st Century Man & One Straw: ...
JakDMSY discovered this in Environment
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JakDMSY discovered 6 months ago- Some of the best writing I've read in a while. Great stuff. From the page: "The world needs generalists. The second half of the 20th century-the great Pax Americana- was one of the more stable times in world history (speaking in grossly general terms). Stability breeds affluence, which in turn breeds specificity. Looking down the barrel of the next 50 years I see immense change in the wind. The deep discontent of the â€oethird” world, the undeniable facts of climate change and resource decline, and the ever accelerating advances in technology placing ethical strains on a generation without the intellectual tools to handle them."
- PlanetThoughts rated 6 months ago
- Good thoughtful review of where we are in our approach to knowledge and values. Ranges from personal to societal and worldwide. I enjoyed reading the article, and it resonated quite a bit.
- bluezfire rated 6 months ago
- From the page: As we head into a future rife with paradigm shifts, there are other graver concerns. A society of specialists can be seen as less capable of either seeing the need for change or reacting to it. Specialists are by nature more conservative-they will seek solutions to new problems with the finite number of tools and thought patterns that they know, and will resist the need to embrace tools and thoughts they do not know. As the rate of change increases with improving technology and a rapidly altering physical environment, Specialists will become increasingly incapable of solving the problems at a sufficient rate. In business this will cause loss of market share. In agriculture and government policy it will cause famine and poverty. On a more individual level, this specificity of knowledge leaves us less able to cope. Skills that allowed our grandparents to excel are not present in most of society today. How many of us can collect seed from a tomato or or able to can that tomato if we needed to without getting sick? How many Americans know how to weld, wire an outlet, or to bring in more modern skills, write HTML? We live in a society built on things we don't understand and are taking for granted. .......... Excellence!
