The people that "make things work" should exercise more political influence than the young, who live in their parents basement, and tell the rest of the world what's wrong with it.
People who make things work tend to understand the problems of complexity much better.
Like they understand that it takes years to full grasp the nuances of even relatively simple mechanisms like V8 engines, electrical wiring or sewer pipes.
Compared to that, our society is a mechanism so unimaginably complex that no one has even the beginnings of systematic understanding of how it works.
Young bitter people who feel betrayed by this uber-complex system not only don't understand the system (because no one really does), they can't even begin to grasp their lack of understanding. You're starting so far down the mountain you're on a plain and the mountain is invisible.
It's like a retarded caveman facing a jet engine, and only the endless chasm between the ignorance of the first and the complexity of the second gives them enough confidence that they can make it go better by hitting it with a rock or something.
Worse still, the older retarded troglodytes in academia have been at this for decades and have taught the younger generations all about "jet engines" using some finger drawings and a pile of turds. And so the young people who feel burned by the complex system -- in part because no one taught them the actual known basics of the system like "don't stand behind the jet engine" -- are doubly emboldened in their ignorant tinkering of the system to make it less burny.
The people that "make things work" should exercise more political influence than the young, who live in their parents basement, and tell the rest of the world what's wrong with it.
People who make things work tend to understand the problems of complexity much better.
Like they understand that it takes years to full grasp the nuances of even relatively simple mechanisms like V8 engines, electrical wiring or sewer pipes.
Compared to that, our society is a mechanism so unimaginably complex that no one has even the beginnings of systematic understanding of how it works.
Young bitter people who feel betrayed by this uber-complex system not only don't understand the system (because no one really does), they can't even begin to grasp their lack of understanding. You're starting so far down the mountain you're on a plain and the mountain is invisible.
It's like a retarded caveman facing a jet engine, and only the endless chasm between the ignorance of the first and the complexity of the second gives them enough confidence that they can make it go better by hitting it with a rock or something.
Worse still, the older retarded troglodytes in academia have been at this for decades and have taught the younger generations all about "jet engines" using some finger drawings and a pile of turds. And so the young people who feel burned by the complex system -- in part because no one taught them the actual known basics of the system like "don't stand behind the jet engine" -- are doubly emboldened in their ignorant tinkering of the system to make it less burny.
This should be a post on its own. Excellent writing and analogies