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<blockquote data-quote="Kairos" data-source="post: 180499" data-attributes="member: 10263"><p>It's not just science either. There's nothing I can say about the current state of American sciences that wasn't said about that bridge construction in Miami collapsing on innocent drivers below because the company wanted the project run by affirmative action hires.</p><p></p><p>There is a book by an intellectual named Peter Turchin called Secular Cycles. In it he describes the cyclical nature of western civilization, especially throughout the medieval period. The model breaks down in the 1600s, in my opinion, because that is where we broke out of the Malthusian Trap, and a new model is required to better describe our current position in this flaming dumpster fire we find ourselves in today.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, one of the hallmarks of the end of a secular expansion was a credentials explosion. In the medieval period, that happened in the form of increasing numbers of titles of nobility. Historians will see this huge explosion in pointless titles of nobility handed out to people in exchange for favors, money, etc. These were usually people coming out of the merchant families in the cities.</p><p></p><p>Then when the Malthusian Trap was reached, food yields no longer grew and you got a lot of destabilization. The next phase was the internecine conflict between all these nobles for dwindling productive land, resources, and power.</p><p></p><p>Our present situation is a little different because we are not currently affected by Malthusian concerns, at least in nations dominated by people of European or East Asian descent. But we still see the credentials explosion. It happens in the form of all these useless degrees. Instead of minting some clown as a baron without an actual barony who is in charge of some royal program that does nothing useful, we have the purple-haired gender studies graduate who gets hired at Google to fuck with everybody like some communist political officer. There is an explosion in degrees. College degrees mean very little now because of it.</p><p></p><p>The end result of that is that you have actually a ton of people in the sciences who do not belong there. It used to be that people of average intellect could go after low-hanging fruit problems and sort of cruise through the system. There aren't enough low-hanging fruit. So they are all trying to publish or die. The journals are trying to make a buck and they will publish just about anything these days.</p><p></p><p>It has a real effect on everything, not just the sciences. Consider the leap in technology between the RAZR and the iPhone. When is the last time you saw that kind of technological leap in the wireless market? Not since, in fact. But that leap was peanuts compared to the leap from expensive brick cell phones to the StarTacs, and the StarTac was just a refinement of the initial invention of wireless telephony.</p><p></p><p>It's all slowing down. We make progress in a few areas that mean very little, like entertainment and networking, but no real meaningful advances. The last huge invention was the Internet. Think about that.</p><p></p><p>We no longer can put people on the Moon. We lost the ability to do that. I could go on and on about the paucity of scientific and engineering advancement.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that's my screed and I am sticking to it. I grow tired of the woo woo. Seriously. I will talk about ghosts and all sorts of crazy things, but science should be left alone. It's a touchy subject.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kairos, post: 180499, member: 10263"] It's not just science either. There's nothing I can say about the current state of American sciences that wasn't said about that bridge construction in Miami collapsing on innocent drivers below because the company wanted the project run by affirmative action hires. There is a book by an intellectual named Peter Turchin called Secular Cycles. In it he describes the cyclical nature of western civilization, especially throughout the medieval period. The model breaks down in the 1600s, in my opinion, because that is where we broke out of the Malthusian Trap, and a new model is required to better describe our current position in this flaming dumpster fire we find ourselves in today. Anyway, one of the hallmarks of the end of a secular expansion was a credentials explosion. In the medieval period, that happened in the form of increasing numbers of titles of nobility. Historians will see this huge explosion in pointless titles of nobility handed out to people in exchange for favors, money, etc. These were usually people coming out of the merchant families in the cities. Then when the Malthusian Trap was reached, food yields no longer grew and you got a lot of destabilization. The next phase was the internecine conflict between all these nobles for dwindling productive land, resources, and power. Our present situation is a little different because we are not currently affected by Malthusian concerns, at least in nations dominated by people of European or East Asian descent. But we still see the credentials explosion. It happens in the form of all these useless degrees. Instead of minting some clown as a baron without an actual barony who is in charge of some royal program that does nothing useful, we have the purple-haired gender studies graduate who gets hired at Google to fuck with everybody like some communist political officer. There is an explosion in degrees. College degrees mean very little now because of it. The end result of that is that you have actually a ton of people in the sciences who do not belong there. It used to be that people of average intellect could go after low-hanging fruit problems and sort of cruise through the system. There aren't enough low-hanging fruit. So they are all trying to publish or die. The journals are trying to make a buck and they will publish just about anything these days. It has a real effect on everything, not just the sciences. Consider the leap in technology between the RAZR and the iPhone. When is the last time you saw that kind of technological leap in the wireless market? Not since, in fact. But that leap was peanuts compared to the leap from expensive brick cell phones to the StarTacs, and the StarTac was just a refinement of the initial invention of wireless telephony. It's all slowing down. We make progress in a few areas that mean very little, like entertainment and networking, but no real meaningful advances. The last huge invention was the Internet. Think about that. We no longer can put people on the Moon. We lost the ability to do that. I could go on and on about the paucity of scientific and engineering advancement. Anyway, that's my screed and I am sticking to it. I grow tired of the woo woo. Seriously. I will talk about ghosts and all sorts of crazy things, but science should be left alone. It's a touchy subject. [/QUOTE]
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