Our Ugly Overview
We cannot even see what we cannot do
I’ve talked about the increasing complexity we face with recursive problems that produce chaotic conditions. This complexity results from traditional explanations of large-scale issues that are entangled beyond our broad levels of understanding.
This overwhelming complexity is no longer confined to academic circles. It’s a pervasive issue that demands attention, even from those outside of university philosophy departments.
Is there anyone left in those philosophy departments except old post-structuralists and a younger group of logicians who live in a wholly digital world? We abandoned both philosophy and history, and now the shit is hitting the fan, and we don’t know what to call it.
We are burdened with idiots, many of whom managed to earn a law degree but never went beyond legal exegesis as dictated by their political owners. The rest of the North American population is lined up to buy snake oil or has given up in disgust.
None of these conditions helps. The origin of democratic governance is the assumption that common knowledge is adequate to guide public policy. The original form in Athens 2,500 years ago failed when people preferred traditional mythology over logic. Socrates ended up having to drink poison for demeaning the Athenian divinities.
