CHILEAN economist and environmentalist Manfred Max-Neef has said humankind had reached the point ‘where we know a lot but understand very little’.
As an example,he has said you could study everything there was to know about love, anthropologically, socially, biochemically, ‘but until you fall in love you’ll never understand it’.
He calls for the world to move away from a fragmented accumulation of knowledge and towards a greater capacity for understanding.
Since the age of seven, Dr Max-Neef said, he had always wondered what made humans different from animals. Was it a soul, intelligence or humour? He dismissed all of these, and said that eventually his father gave him the answer: ‘stupidity’.
‘There are no stupid elephants, no stupid dogs,’ he said, ‘and while no human being is free from stupidity, the more power they have the more stupid they become. They have all the knowledge of what should not be done, and they do it.’
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'They have all the knowledge of what should not be done, and they do it.’
Max Neef is being generous, it's clever patronage of narrow self interested elites that created the uneven world we live in.
The idiots are the rest of us who stay in our place and play the game of equality, fairness etc knowing full well most of us will never move on from where we were born.
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