Most of the maladies of the modern age trace back to hyper focus on direct short term effects.

· Bits and Bobs 9/22/25
  • Most of the maladies of the modern age trace back to hyper focus on direct short term effects.
    • No focus on indirect or long term effects.
    • Reductionism is helpful for short term direct effects but has nothing to say about large scale indirect effects.
    • We're the drunks under the streetlight looking only at things that can be understood by the only tool we have that works reliably: reductionism.[ac]