Investment in the future means “profits this quarter to raise all boats”. Well yeah, all boats will actually rise, over decades. What pisses me off is how interest groups–religious like creationists and pro-lifers, corporate lobbyists, most libertarians and many conservatives are wearing blinders that block out real science for their own interests.
WHY do so many Americans still trust those short-term thinking institutions? A large part of it is driven by general distrust of government and global community cooperation, even to the point of imagined conspiracies. Sure, some conspiracies actually exist, but part of their answer is to create their own counter-conspiracy and invent lies that sound sciency enough to fool everyone, including themselves.
Ivy, we need people like you who care enough to stick around and help fight this war of science vs religion, bullshit, snake oil, and self-delusion. I think that humans are naturally prone to crowd-sourced self-righteousness and delusion, unless they’re formally educated in skepticism, reasoning, and scientific methods. Jesus, conservative and religious self-righteous are outright unethical, also in politics. Gerrymandering is an example of government corruption, and… there’s more, but I’ll stop ranting here. Progressives aren’t angels either, and they fail in some science.
I wonder if the devastation of World War II elevated the group consciousness of Europe, but didn’t traumatize USA enough to realize more how we’re all in this together. (Then there’s a rising China to compete with and fear, but even they know there’s long-term profit investing in sustainable-planet sciences, and other sciences.)
Belle Rose 5 years, 3 months ago.
