Thread by @SteB777

You see, if you do not see the world in the terms George describes, and hardly any does, then this is a basic thinking error. From birth we have been taught entirely false ideas about the world in which we live, and these falsehoods persist at the highest levels in academia.

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1443163529410977801

Why isn't academia worried that most accounts of the world and whole academic fields are based on profoundly and demonstrable false views of the world we live in? Science supports the systems view and the interconnection of everything.

Nothing so far supports the mistaken view of the world being composed of separate objects with no connection to anything else. All the evidence is for whole system interconnection. Yet the fallacious world view, still predominates. Why?

The explanation seems rather obvious. The fallacious world view that the world is full of separate things, of no relationship to each other is essential to the continuous economic growth model.

Admitting and acknowledging the systems and ecological view of the world, would mean acknowledging that the perpetual economic growth model is premised on an entirely false view of the world we live in, a profound error.

The bulwark against acknowledging this error is that the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world have accumulated their power and wealth on the basis of this false world view.

In other words, acknowledging the correct basis of reality about the world we live in, means that this grossly uneven distribution of wealth and power could not be justified and is central to the problem of unsustainability.

In crude terms, it is about a tiny minority of people hanging on to their vast wealth, status and privilege gained through the peddling of a demonstrably false view of the world in which we live. It really does seem that simple.

Of course, these people peddle the false view and misdirection that it would be ordinary people who would object to this re-evaluation and the end of perpetual growth. Opinion polls (and this is in a system where they own the media), disagree. If the public knew the truth though?