Description: In which "The Emperor" stands for Modern Science
What is your spirit animal?
“Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.” Buckminster Fuller (Spaceship Earth: Manual of operation, Circa 1965)
“By being specially adapted to acquire a particular kind of information, most structures [species and specialists] are tied to a very narrow, rigid program, their inbuilt computing mechanisms containing `hypotheses’ to which they blindly adhere. If circumstances arise that were not `foreseen’ by the adaptive process that produced them [evolution and Academia], a structure may transmit false information which it cannot be taught to correct.” ( Konrad Lorenz, Behind the Mirror , “1973) (My brackets)