I was talking to some engineers yesterday about, well, the decay of complex systems through attrition and loss of knowledge.
Some systems which are very important to human life have subtleties built into them which are only maintained through education, experience, know-how, and genuine care.
Some of the subtleties which get lost as old guys retire/die and are not replaced.
Which is to say, medicine as we knew it for a time in our lifetime, is going to die.
And...as the poor and minorities will get hit the hardest and the quickest....then the DEI folks will scream racism, and will double down on this sort of ideological med school stuff....and make it even worse.
Eventually it will be ruined for everyone, including the elite.
Hey, but at least we will be equal.
(I’m sure some capable engineers here will more appreciate the decay of complex interwoven systems more than I did before yesterday....very scary thoughts, really...I guess this is likely happening in aviation at the moment....)
Is it any wonder that practically all Sci-fi novels and movies show a ‘post-apocalyptic’ society where technology has been lost and no one knows much of anything besides survival for another day................
Engineering and technocratic institutions were basically built on meritocracy. Starting with Physics and Calculus as underpinnings. If you can’t do that stuff, you don’t move on, typically, or didn’t.
Now, such gatekeeping by ability is deemed racist by the Didn’t Earn It crowd.
It will not end well.
We need to inculcate the educational processes which built a great country, perhaps in separate non government entities. I do believe this dei , crt, blm movement will bring societal decay and darkness. The installment of these mindsets will only invite invaders to take over our befuddled state. We will be a vassal state.
We can see the beginnings of this with the way our military, schools, and even many of the Christian churches are going.
Yup. Watched the decline over 36 years working the shuttle program. Critical thinking and being able to find and understand subtleties in systems slipped away. Understanding upstream and downstream interactions started to slip away also.