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The Politics of Knowledge - When Loyalty Minimizes Learning (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Knowledge - When Loyalty Minimizes Learning (Hardcover)
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Whether or not the U.S. is in decline can be debated, but there is
evidence that its political system is becoming less able to solve
major problems. This is in part because loyalty to a belief or an
ideology may be taking priority over learning how to understand the
problems. This work attempts to revitalize the importance of
learnability by reviewing some fundamentals of who we are, how the
system works, and why learning is difficult. Humans driven by
opinions and perceptions tend to discount politics similar to the
way they might discount science, yet it was the study of science
and politics that brought much of mankind to remarkably higher
standards of living. Government, and the economic system it
implemented, was initially designed for the purpose of channeling
self-interests into public benefits. Understanding what an
inclusive political culture is, or why there is a Constitution, for
example, could be useful toward restoring the credibility of our
central political organization, the core of society's stability and
development. We are losing respect for our government's
decision-making ability, but in a democracy, citizens must be held
more accountable for who their government is. The hypothesis is
that if more humans are more learnable, we will increase the
possibilities for finding the "best" solutions to big problems.
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