Most of us in the West recognise the criminal insanity of Putin's war against Ukraine & the lies he uses to justify it, but we shouldn't think ourselves immune to the same kind of madness, because we are not.
The Wests failure to instigate a #SustainabilityRevolution, the existential need for which has been apparent to many of us since the early 1970s, is also criminally insane. Only, we don't have a single Putin figure to blame. The blame is more collective, but focused on academia.
Why academia?
Because we look to academics as authorities in their supposed areas of expertise.
We expect social scientists to be authorities on understanding society, the state, & civilisation, but in truth they are as ignorant as medieval astronomers were of the heavens.
Because we look to academics as authorities in their supposed areas of expertise.
We expect social scientists to be authorities on understanding society, the state, & civilisation, but in truth they are as ignorant as medieval astronomers were of the heavens.
It's no good attacking academics for their ignorance, any more than it was medieval academics, as Galileo discovered to his cost.
They must be persuaded as politely as possible to recognise their ignorance, so that they can correct it.
They must be persuaded as politely as possible to recognise their ignorance, so that they can correct it.
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