by From Ikonoclast The elites of course are in favor of the status quo. They are made immensely richer than average and most of this oligarchy (being rich, white men over 60) expect to be dead or still wealth-insulated when the unsustainable system begin collapsing. They are probably fairly evenly divided between those who don’t know and those who don’t care that a collapse is inevitable with business as usual. The masses are largely too poorly educated to know what is coming. Public education and especially science literacy education in the West has been deliberately dumbed down. A small STEM technical elite is all that is needed to keep production science going whilst impact science (the study of ecological, climate and general biospheric impacts and limits) is de-funded and even
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from Ikonoclast
The elites of course are in favor of the status quo. They are made immensely richer than average and most of this oligarchy (being rich, white men over 60) expect to be dead or still wealth-insulated when the unsustainable system begin collapsing. They are probably fairly evenly divided between those who don’t know and those who don’t care that a collapse is inevitable with business as usual.
The masses are largely too poorly educated to know what is coming. Public education and especially science literacy education in the West has been deliberately dumbed down. A small STEM technical elite is all that is needed to keep production science going whilst impact science (the study of ecological, climate and general biospheric impacts and limits) is de-funded and even actively opposed and destroyed. A knowledge scarcity is deliberately engineered. Yet it is only critical thinking in the scientific and social science fields (and in philosophy) which can generate the autonomous ability to develop new social imaginary significations: to envision a radically different society and political economy.