Like you might think that abstract intelligence and social intelligence might carry over solidarity instead of making people more shitty in that regard. How does that even work? Why does people like that coast in life while those who they seem lesser than them suffer?

  • doubledealer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    edit-2
    14 days ago

    Most cases in my experience is partly because STEM study is divorced from study of Humanities. Wanna know how many STEM students were in my 300s Eng Lit class where we had analysis on Neuromancer and how fucked that all was? ZERO. It was the same people from all my other Humanities courses.

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      14 days ago

      My college required four humanities classes for every degree. Including STEM. Really wish more pushed that.

      • THEPH0NECOMPANY [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        ·
        14 days ago

        My college had a special philosophy for Engineering class that counted towards our humanities class that was basically DOD propaganda about how you aren’t morally responsible when you make weapons that end up committing war crimes

        • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          ·
          14 days ago

          One of my humanities classes was a study on successful rebellions and how they overthrow governments through united effort. Much happier with mine, lol

    • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, I think it’s largely the result of the consensus view in STEM becoming “the humanities are worthless”

      Of course then the diphsits, having refused to learn any history, have no clue that it wasn’t always this way and many (most?) of the great STEM figures of the past were polymaths with good foundations in the humanities.