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Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoI’ve always thought this is a weird status game, insisting that there is some fundamental separation between arts and engineering, or that the complex problems of the world will somehow be solved with more arts.
I don’t see any reason why this is true, and tons of massively cringe culturally biased writing and art in every form of media to suggest that it’s not. Arts are no better at overcoming cultural bias.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 days ago
I don’t think I said that arts alone are the be all and end all of civilization.
I was speaking more to the idea of education creating ‘the whole man.’
I was taught that da Vinci was the perfect Renaissance Man because he was skilled in arts, music, and engineering.
Take the first case cited in the tape; how many NASA engineers were weavers? Probably not many, but I’d bet a lot of them had grandmothers who used looms. Or maybe they’d heard about they’d ‘programmed’ looms back in the day.