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Higher education both attracts and produces mindsets which solve problems through planning, engineering and designing. There is a natural tendency to use your
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Higher education both attracts and produces mindsets which solve problems through planning, engineering and designing.
There is a natural tendency to use your methodology of problem solving on all problems. So we tend to produce a greater collection of social engineering and central economic planning advocates. We want to design a greater society. We want to design a greater economy.
Even when you look at highly educated vs slightly more highly educated in the same field you see the same shift in mindset. The divergence between Fellow, Architect, Engineer is that at each higher level there is a greater degree if centralization mindset of design.
There is a potential fallacy that should be evident that you can not necessarily and simply equate more education with always producing the correct perspectives and therefore liberal view points are the correct positions. As in the above, we in engineering fields know the value higher levels of discipline, yet we also are fully aware of the problems resulting from high level engineers and architects who design their perfect systems which don't work in the real world.
Higher education produces problem solving disciplines that are very useful and powerful, yet these same disciplines also are subject to error as well as they typically can't quantify the numerous variables in large systems thinking
For more around this topic, this was a great talk working with systems greater than our human capacity to understand them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaFcI2UNrI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaFcI2UNrI
- internaut 10y ago> There is a potential fallacy that should be evident that you can not necessarily and simply equate more education with always producing the correct perspectives and therefore liberal view points are the correct positions. This. If there existed a world in which only liberals were right all the time conservatism would have been selected out of the gene pool by now. That's not a metaphor. Political tribes have been battling for probably tens of thousands of years. There is too much world for one true path.
- Joof 10y agoHonestly, there is too much world for 2 true paths. A multiparty system sounds nice from here.
- internaut 10y agoEven this is probably not enough. Republicanism is definitely on its way out as a way to structure human governance. It's the same problem that caused the Boston Tea Party. Increasing lack of representativeness. I think it has taken the full powers of the media to synchronize the people this far but with the Net there is too much dissenting opinion, too much expression for a party system to work. If the Net generation was represented in parliament, then political parties would have a half-life similar to Boy Bands.