RE: Least Resistance

Ah this for sure irks the hell out of me. I work with customers a lot who are largely tunnel visioned and it bothers the hell out of me! When I was in their shoes, I dabbled in just about everything I could to have at least the most tangential bit of knowledge of a topic. I wasn't going to be the subject matter expert on it.. but if you mentioned it to me, I had a decent chance of recalling a minor detail or two.

I think it's a catastrophic failure of society right now, in my opinion. To be pessimistic, it could actually be the penultimate failure metric of society. The Prussian school system that John Dewey and his ilk foisted upon the government run schools in America and across the globe put forth obedient workers. The college system has put forth isolationists and siloed hellscapes. It reminds me of what ultra black-budget programs operate as, which may seem extreme, but it's not.

Those programs are strictly need to know. If it isn't in your scope, then you have no knowledge of it and you can't talk about it. What do colleges prescribe to? Specialization and perfection in a single category.

I think this is one of the critical issues of today. Practically none of the day to day aspects of the working life and real world that actual people live in is so specialized that you don't have anything besides that knowledge, yet the college system teaches that insane way.

Going back to the cynical side of it.. that may be the intended outcome. Specialize people to death so that they can't function outside of a perfect circle and nothing in the world is a perfect circle. Pretty fucked!