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To rank five things causing massive loss to Western society, I'd say they were; - War (the ultimate sacrificial alter of value) - Sickness (premature death sn
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
To rank five things causing massive loss to Western society, I'd say
they were;
- War (the ultimate sacrificial alter of value)
- Sickness (premature death snatching away human capital)
- Child and domestic abuse (trauma inhibits)
- Corruption (financial loss and crisis)
- Professional management (a deep sickness of motive)
What is the real cost of employing millions of people to bullshit each
other? Benjamin Ginsberg first rang alarm bells on "The Fall of the
Faculty" over a decade ago. Since then, the damage done to education,
research and academic life by the infection of bureaucracy is
immeasurable. To think of all the good professors leaving the
vocation, the students who drop out disillusioned, and the piss-poor
educations they receive, the debt, and mediocrity of vision, it's
heartbreaking. Our universities have been eviscerated. The result for
industry and society is a colossal bonfire of wealth.
- Asooka 4y agoAh, the classic horsemen of the apocalypse. War. Pestilence (of body and/or mind). Conquest. Wonder what Death would be. Private equity firms?
- throwaway74829 4y agoA spiritual one -- its causes numerous. Though it would be invigorating to have a word for the whole thing. Maybe the Germans have something for us?
- TreeRingCounter 4y ago
- flanked-evergl 4y agoAre any of the first 4 particular problems in the west? I think the west mostly do better than non-western countries when it comes to war, sickness, child and domestic abuse, and corruption.