Millennials when old

[David Horn]

(05-09-2020, 01:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-09-2020, 06:27 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: We could approach them if the intellectual elite convinces the masses to their ideas. But to achieve this, the intellectual elite needs to heal. The neo-Missionaries should try to achieve that. If they don't, our species might have to wait many centuries for another renaissance.

I'm not sure what you mean by "intellectual elites" here.  Currently, the technorati is terrible about paying attention to the evidence.  Or rather, specialists each pay attention to their own specialty, and assume it's the only one that's important.

That's how we got to this situation where the epidemiologists are recommending handling the pandemic by destroying the economy, and the economists are recommending to preserve the economy by letting old people die.

There is some truth here, I admit.  The 20-20 tunnel vision is really terrible at the moment. A lot of this is due to the inordinate focus on STEM and a nearly total disregard for the liberal arts -- the one undertaking designed to look broadly.  I'll disagree about the epidemiologists, though.  I've heard many interviewed by a broad range of interviewers, and they tend to argue for focus on the health issues because the economy can't heal if the workforce and customers are disease vectors.  They also cite the big winners in the liberal democracies.  South Korea seems to get perhaps more attention than it's due, but Australia and New Zealand have both succeeded with governments that are virtual opposites. All focused on the disease.