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Scris de Florin Rusu |
Marţi, 31 Mai 2011 12:12 |
Un exemplu in acest sens este Gideon Rachman, care in Financial Times, compara lista celor mai importanti ganditori declarati de The Foreign Policy, cu una echivalenta aferenta anului 1861. Lista din 2010 este deschisa de Bill Gates si Warren Buffett (pentru eforturile filantropice), apoi se claseaza Barack Obama (alegeti dumnevoastra pentru ce). Pe sase se situeaza ministrul brazilian de externe (?!), urmat indeaproape de David Petraeus, “the American general and also, apparently, the world’s eighth most significant thinker”. “It is not until you get down to number 12 on the list that you find somebody who is more famous for thinking than doing – Nouriel Roubini, the economist. But, as the list goes on, genuine intellectuals begin to dominate. There are economists such as Joseph Stiglitz, journalists (Christopher Hitchens), philosophers (Martha Nussbaum), political scientists (Michael Mandelbaum), novelists (Maria Vargas Llosa) and theologians (Abdolkarim Soroush). But now compare it with a similar list that could have been compiled 150 years ago. The 1861 rankings could have started with Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill – On the Origin of Species and On Liberty were both published in 1859. Then you could include Karl Marx and Charles Dickens. And that was just the people living in and around London. In Russia, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were both at work, although neither had yet published their greatest novels.” E adevarat ca multi dintre cei prezenti pe lista lui Rachman pentru 1861 s-au remarcat mai ales prin efectele nefaste ale ideilor lor asupra civilizatie si sunt, intr-un fel, responsabili pentru modul cum arata lista din 2010, insa nimeni nu le poate nega calitatea de ganditori. A-l compara pe Barack Obama cu Marx e ca si cum l-ai compara pe sergentul Bill Jones cu generalul, cum se numea ?!, ah, da, David Petraeus. Dar ce explicatii ofera Rachman? Primele doua sunt tipice pentru intelegerea notiunii de progres din societatea moderna. “The first is that you might need a certain distance in order to judge greatness. Maybe it is only in retrospect that we can identify the real giants. A second possibility is that familiarity breeds contempt. Maybe we are surrounded by thinkers who are just as great as the giants of the past, but we cannot recognise the fact because they are still in our midst.” A treia si a patra insa ating esenta problemei. “Another theory is that the nature of intellectual life has changed and become more democratic. (…) And then there is a final possibility. That, for all its wealth and its gadgets, our generation is not quite as smart as it thinks it is.” Ultima ipoteza ataca insasi notiunea de progres. Iar Benjamin Jones merge mai departe intr-un studiu privind “evolutia” progresului tehnologic: “Great achievements in knowledge are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, I find that the mean age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by 6 years over the 20th Century. I estimate shifts in life-cycle productivity and show that innovators have become especially unproductive at younger ages. Meanwhile, the later start to the career is not compensated for by increasing productivity beyond early middle age. I further show that the early life-cycle dynamics are closely related to variation in the age at Ph.D. and discuss a theory where accumulations of knowledge across generations lead innovators to seek more education over time. More generally, the results show that individual innnovators are productive over a narrowing span of their life-cycle, a trend that reduces, other things equal, the aggregate output of innovators. This drop in productivity is particularly acute if innovators’ raw ability is greatest when young.” Totul se rezuma la regresul spiritual inregistrat de omul modern. Educatia publica cu accentul ei pe specializare si dispret fata de valorile civilizatiei occidentale clasice nu le distruge numai pe acestea, ci chiar si propriul sau autodeclarat raison de vivre - inovatia tehnologica. Tyler Cowen analizeaza observatiile lui Benjamin Jones si Tim Harford si concluzioneaza: “One implication is that greater specialization makes innovation much harder — hardly anyone has a good grasp of the whole. Another implication is that we must rely more on particular kinds of experimentation to make progress on hard problems. This is all taking Michael Polanyi and Hayek and Whitehead and Ortega y Gasset and turning the heat up a notch; we are increasingly alienated from a knowledge of the whole and yes that matters.”
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