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1. One line that seems to divide expert advice on how the West should behave in the #RussiaUkraineWar is that most area students recommend more military support for #Ukraine while many #IR & #politicalscience professors propose accommodation of #Russia.
foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukrai…
foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukrai…
2. Many generalists' underlying argument, whether im- or explicitly indicated, is that #EasternEurope specialists suffer from professional distortion. An emotions overload weakens their political judgement. Thus the generalists' texts are often educational rather than analytical.
3. #Areaexperts, in contrast, suspect the #generalists of suffering from a lack of empirical and contextual information. They are afraid that the generalists neither properly know nor fully understand (or are even not interested in) key peculiarities of the #RussianUkrainianWar.
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Below is a summary from my recent talk on 33 core beliefs prevalent in modern culture contrasted with our underlying biophysical realities.
NB: This was intended to be as a single presentation but am posting each segment separately here.
Below is a summary from my recent talk on 33 core beliefs prevalent in modern culture contrasted with our underlying biophysical realities.
NB: This was intended to be as a single presentation but am posting each segment separately here.
Table of Contents & time stamps.
Myth #33 - The experts have ALL the answers
We live as part of a system. If we're to intervene for better futures, we need people seeing the same map - aka share an aerial view of the topography of the human ecosystem. #Generalists #SystemsBlind
We live as part of a system. If we're to intervene for better futures, we need people seeing the same map - aka share an aerial view of the topography of the human ecosystem. #Generalists #SystemsBlind
