Charles,
Great essay. I agree we're 'sleep walking' into problems, and when awake we don our blinkers and also look the wrong way just in case. Extra credit just for pointing that out! I don't agree with your position in the fours anyway. I also subtly argue and hope I show;
"In terms of human capital, the developing science of the mind is paramount." Judy Nabb also agrees. Eugenics is worse then useless if we develop only more physically perfect fools.
I also baled out of indoctrination before it was too late, though continued studying for 10yrs (plus 40 part time). I've earned well from renewables, but have found in research that far better sources are hiding right under our noses once we learn how to see them by understanding nature. So does anybody listen, or even review the foundational new thinking required? Hmm. ...As you say;
"society pursues its courses of individual and collective short-sightedness, almost certainly in (mostly) wrong directions."
I hope you may read mine, which should be sensational. Only to a few it seems, and nobody with doctrine embedded. If you ever suspected QM had a simple(ish) classical analogue and should be unifiable with QM, you were right. Do tell me if you follow it (my prev essays set the dynamic framework). ..Going up.
Very best of luck in the contest.
Peter
