@ErickFernandez I am not a political person. But this eye-opening video compilation points to a much deeper problem in our society.
The education system in our country has failed to teach science to students, and our media/tv/movies constantly degrade scientists.
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The education system in our country has failed to teach science to students, and our media/tv/movies constantly degrade scientists.
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@ErickFernandez So, people listen to pundits and celebrities instead of scientists and experts. These experts have scientifically studied a problem for years, therefore understand it better and can design methods of prevention and mitigation.
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@ErickFernandez This same problem also applies to career politicians who have no understanding of how complex systems work, yet they make policies and decisions for a country, a highly complex system with many types of underlying interactions and feedbacks.
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@ErickFernandez How can we break this vicious cycle of ignorance that is pushing our country into demise?
(A) We must heavily invest in EDUCATION (schools, universities, and most importantly, tv/media), SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, INDUSTRY, & INFRASTRUCTURE.
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(A) We must heavily invest in EDUCATION (schools, universities, and most importantly, tv/media), SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, INDUSTRY, & INFRASTRUCTURE.
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@ErickFernandez This is what #China 🇨🇳 has been doing over the past decades, hence growing its global dominance.
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@ErickFernandez (B) We also need to rid ourselves of career politicians whose main focus is getting reelected. We need long-term thinkers, scientists, and systems experts who have a vision of the years and decades to come, and who are not in the pockets of the lobbies of big corporations.
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