Drowning in Nerdism

How Developing Countries Bought Into a Bogus Narrative About How Progress Happens

The West discovered (modern) things that work.

The West also invented a story about how these discoveries were made, involving academic prowess and analytical thinking.

The rest of the world, lagging behind, bought into that narrative, and scholasticized their population, well beyond Western standards.

But it was never about scholasticism. That was, and is, merely the easiest causal story to tell about progress.

Now we have a glut of low-dimensional thinkers spread across the globe with little of what it takes to innovate. Narrow-minded drones flooding into organizations, creating hives of rigid mindlessness.

We now have on-the-spectrum CEOs who have been rewarded by society under the false pretense of nerdism, bloating our organizations with what is, by any objective measure, a mentally deficient workforce.

Exam scores are not signals for “intelligence” they are signals for deficient cognition enforced on populations that believed in the fully circular narrative that test-taking has something to do with real world success.

In reality, only a culture of immense trial-and-error and the capacity to rebound from failure can solve hard problems. That’s why it works. Diversity solves, not a filtered pool of outdated thinkers trained in cogs-and-pistons style determinism, and low-level mathematical symbol shuffling that has little to do with the real world.

We have built ourselves a global “talent” pool that we are drowning in.

That’s where we’re at.