Those things interact in multiple ways, the arrogance and ignorance. Obviously, they always do: Arrogance requires ignorance in equal proportion: If you actual

Those things interact in multiple ways, the arrogance and ignorance. Obviously, they always do: Arrogance requires ignorance in equal proportion: If you actually understand the complexity and uncertainty of reality, and then of your perception and thought about it, you can't be arrogant. The more arrogance, the more ignorance is needed. The cure for arrogance (and I know from personal experience!) is knowledge. The ignorance of the humanities and social sciences leads to the absurdity of their megalomania, arrogance, and policies. I used to think they knew better, and could only guess why they did what they did. Then I realized I was overlooking the more simple, obvious solution that was staring me in the face, that is staring all of us in the face: They are just ignorant; they really don't know these things. It's not true of all STEM, etc. but I had STEM-studying friends who brag that they never read a book. Many SV leaders and participants are from that crowd, apparently enough for it to be a powerful culture. They deride education, humanities, and social sciences, a parody of the ignorant that's been used in much of the literature (that they haven't read). And more sad, is that people I know that do know better, people with even PhDs in humanities and social sciences, have followed the lead of the ignorant, rather than vice-versa. Rather than educating the world, they buy into the ignorance and worship of it. The humanities and social sciences provide centuries of answers to the problems of today - not every answer, but we can certainly avoid this stupidity. We have everything we need, we just need to wake up to it.