It is perfectly satisfactory. Two world wars, several genocides, and a cold war dun it. Being too jock on the collective level became incredibly dangerous, you really, really don’t want any “hawks” or “direct action worshippers” around nukes. It was more like “Think twice, think thrice, heck, think a million times and still don’t press that button!”
Around the 1960′s, the hippie era, came the geek revolution which took things a bit too far and now we are correcting, regressing back to the mean. Largely because we feel safer now, current problems East Ukraine and ISIS notwithstanding are NOT Cuban Missile Crisis level of problems.
Also, geeks with computers at home are way more formidable than geeks stuffed away into a bleak research lab in 1950. This made us a bit over-confident. We need reminders that even with a geeky software startup success depends on more jocky hard-work and discipline and so on than just smart ideas.
Finally, because intelligence or rationality is supposed to be a self-correcting virtue or tool: perhaps the only one of them? So it is part of intelligence or rationality to figure out when you need to rely on something else than it. To know its own limitations. To figure out how people who economized their time differently and spent their time on building other virtues or tools may have advantages. Intelligence is a universal learner, even from the less intelligent, and while the intelligent tend to economize their time towards intellectual learning part of the universal learning is about the outcomes of other optimizations.
It is perfectly satisfactory. Two world wars, several genocides, and a cold war dun it. Being too jock on the collective level became incredibly dangerous, you really, really don’t want any “hawks” or “direct action worshippers” around nukes. It was more like “Think twice, think thrice, heck, think a million times and still don’t press that button!”
Around the 1960′s, the hippie era, came the geek revolution which took things a bit too far and now we are correcting, regressing back to the mean. Largely because we feel safer now, current problems East Ukraine and ISIS notwithstanding are NOT Cuban Missile Crisis level of problems.
Also, geeks with computers at home are way more formidable than geeks stuffed away into a bleak research lab in 1950. This made us a bit over-confident. We need reminders that even with a geeky software startup success depends on more jocky hard-work and discipline and so on than just smart ideas.
Finally, because intelligence or rationality is supposed to be a self-correcting virtue or tool: perhaps the only one of them? So it is part of intelligence or rationality to figure out when you need to rely on something else than it. To know its own limitations. To figure out how people who economized their time differently and spent their time on building other virtues or tools may have advantages. Intelligence is a universal learner, even from the less intelligent, and while the intelligent tend to economize their time towards intellectual learning part of the universal learning is about the outcomes of other optimizations.