I feel like I'm watching the sociopolitical version of Elder Physicist Syndrome. It's horrifying.
With Elder Physicist Syndrome, it's: "I understand how this piece works, and since I am a person of great understanding, clearly I can go from there; I don't need to ask whether there are any other relevant pieces, and I don't need to ask whether the whole behaves differently than each piece because that is not the model I'm using." And then you see physicists in their 70s who are being complete idiots about climate change, because they understand atoms.
It's like that but with the entirety of society. "I have figured out this one piece! Now I will Do A Logic and obviously as the poet says each man is an island!" No stop aaaagh.
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Date: 2020-07-20 12:11 pm (UTC)With Elder Physicist Syndrome, it's: "I understand how this piece works, and since I am a person of great understanding, clearly I can go from there; I don't need to ask whether there are any other relevant pieces, and I don't need to ask whether the whole behaves differently than each piece because that is not the model I'm using." And then you see physicists in their 70s who are being complete idiots about climate change, because they understand atoms.
It's like that but with the entirety of society. "I have figured out this one piece! Now I will Do A Logic and obviously as the poet says each man is an island!" No stop aaaagh.