The specialization required of modern experts also precludes interdisciplinary debate and restricts the free exchange of ideas. A substantial amount of the progress which occurs in any field is a consequence of cross-pollination, of ideas being brought in from outside of it. It used to be the case that all great scientists were also brilliant philosophers. Today, the average scientist sees philosophy as irrelevant to their domain. It doesn't help that capitalist society disproportionately rewards technical competency in established modes of thought, rather than critical thinking or innovation. To become comfortably middle class, one has to dedicate every iota of their time to memorizing a script. A script associated with an in-demand profession, generally enshrined in an institution of higher learning. How many engineers have been sculpted, bereft of intelligence, creativity, or class, by the mere promise of income? Script kiddies of the physical sciences, boorish, unrefined, and dogmatic, enabled by a sense of elitism which stems from their inheritance of the ostensible Truth; after all, what is truth anymore except that which makes money? Like rats pulling levers to receive cheese.
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