Technological progress has made life and making a living so easy, and require so little sense or expertise, that many people are useless and can't survive outside an aggressive coddling apparatus. Such people expect things like policing and healthcare to be done for them, and see no need for guns.
Another way to see it is optimization. Optimized systems are fragile to changes. I'll use gun control as an example. Gun control is seductive, because in the imagination of the people, it would "reduce" "deaths." The improvement is small and amounts to a small optimization of a situation that is already going great. The disadvantage of the gun control "optimization" is that it makes us more vulnerable to systemic takeover.
As liberal arts majors seek ways to optimize society making it more fair, they also make it more delicate and vulnerable to any attack, or change in our environment.
Technological progress has made life and making a living so easy, and require so little sense or expertise, that many people are useless and can't survive outside an aggressive coddling apparatus. Such people expect things like policing and healthcare to be done for them, and see no need for guns.
Another way to see it is optimization. Optimized systems are fragile to changes. I'll use gun control as an example. Gun control is seductive, because in the imagination of the people, it would "reduce" "deaths." The improvement is small and amounts to a small optimization of a situation that is already going great. The disadvantage of the gun control "optimization" is that it makes us more vulnerable to systemic takeover.
As liberal arts majors seek ways to optimize society making it more fair, they also make it more delicate and vulnerable to any attack, or change in our environment.