Narrow Statements Fall Short Of A General Policy Observation. We Need Synthesis, Through Coordination.

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

With enough of these narrow, repetitive statements, will all the emerging institutions representing the (growing thousands) of established disciplines join together in crafting ingenious POLICY remedies?

The distinction between tactics, strategy & policy is entirely one of feedback scale, and convergence to subtle tuning steps, 5 or more steps back in diverging causality chains. Policy agility can't emerge without sharing a deep enough general perspective on common context.

Of course solutions aren't obvious, and finding them isn't easy. Our only chance is to put our heads together and consider what's optimal for the 7th generation yet unborn. That's ancient tribal logic. Why are we failing to practice it on a bigger scale?

Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science

What's the root causality behind this and all other un- & under-employment issues? Maybe we're just not setting national goals worthy of this electorate's talents?
Why not? Maybe we just got out of the aggregate habit of leveraging all the distributed talent we possess?

We as a people are what we practice.

If we as a people don't retain the practice of setting worthwhile Desired Outcomes ... we won't have any to tempt us ... and we won't have motivation to keep all of us busy.

Who were the first opponents of Neo-Liberal idiocy? Probably the first tribal members, over 100,000 years ago. Amazingly, they're still not the last.