05-11-2020, 05:04 AM
(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.
The technorati are one thing, technology is going well but the social sciences and humanities have a quite irritating leftist bias (the sort I call Inclusivism), and economists have a pro-market liberal bias which is also wrong. Both lack the communitarian ethos of the previous saeculum, when upholding Civilization was all-important.