A World of Hollow Men and Women
Channel: Matt
Date: 01/04/2020

"We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / [And] This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a whimper." -- T.S. Eliot 

If we continue to teach liberal arts they way we do today, we will create a world of one-dimensional minds. The consequences of such single layer thinking are severe. First, immigrants and outsiders will almost always be more creative than native-born citizens, but without similar access to power structures--thereby guaranteeing conflicts between pro-immigration forces and natives as well as minorities and others. 

Second, we will lose empathy if we cannot see our daily lives as the result of a particular yet connected set of events, some tragic, some concocted, some heroic, some unplanned. In short, a failure to teach history in context guarantees tensions between minorities and non-minorities in the same country while removing the empathy necessary to resolve such conflicts. Under such circumstances, a military takeover and far-right political gains become more likely due to the simplicity offered, a simplicity forced upon a nation by an education lacking proper nuance.

Bonus: after the video, I realized one reason Germany and Japan make superior products, especially cars. The way history has been taught in most schools prejudices students against both countries, minimizing their ability to rely on abstract marketing. To overcome such obstacles, both countries had to rely on objective metrics like reliability.