03-09-2008, 03:42 AM
Hi Jerry,
I'm wholly with you, and that's the future I see all but inevitable, as well, I find among even those who inform themselves on these issues, a huge disconnect between what the profess and how they behave. As well, our cultural bias towards reductionist thinking, while a very powerful tool, has a tendency to produce highly specialized "experts," but a very fractured holistic view of large systems, and the data is very hard to find. As well, it's very often simply buried in the desire to rush towards far more "fashionable" issues. I think we're in grave danger indeed.
I'm wholly with you, and that's the future I see all but inevitable, as well, I find among even those who inform themselves on these issues, a huge disconnect between what the profess and how they behave. As well, our cultural bias towards reductionist thinking, while a very powerful tool, has a tendency to produce highly specialized "experts," but a very fractured holistic view of large systems, and the data is very hard to find. As well, it's very often simply buried in the desire to rush towards far more "fashionable" issues. I think we're in grave danger indeed.