Different fields foster different mentalities, and frequently those mentalities are at war. Political science departments, that study the political culture of their country, are frequently at war with anthropology departments, that study other cultures. The economic departments, that study ways to advance people's economic utility, are frequently at war with the environmental studies departments, that study the ways to be less obtrusive to nature. Similarly there are disagreements among mathematicians and philosophers, who use pure logic, and engineers, who study ways to apply logic toward creation of machines, or marketing professionals, who study ways to convince the public of their usefulness.
In most cases these wars are a result of inadequate understanding. A political scientist would benefit vastly from understanding other cultures, as doing so would not only provide a historical framework for his discipline but also give him insight into the workings of his own country. An economist or an engineer would benefit vastly from understanding environmental science, as doing so would enhance his understanding of what economy and technology utilize and affect. Ultimately environmentally sound technologies are also the more economically viable ones; and vast economic gain can be effectuated by implementing high-technology clean energy solutions, that allow people to have what they have now and more while vastly reducing the destruction of nature and the burden on nature.
The biggest downfall of pure capitalism is its failure to include environmental costs. This results in an outcome that fails to disincentivize brainless short-sightedness, such as burning of rain forests to make room for ranch land that becomes useless in two years, and a failure to incentivize intelligence and foresight, such as technologies that maximize utility while minimizing environmental costs. There have been efforts done, within capitalist framework, to correct this downfall by Nature Conservancy, which purchases particularly rich lands to save them from logging and ranching; and there was, under Clinton administration, an emissions trading scheme, which worked wonders until Bush destroyed it by letting polluters purchase emissions credits themselves. Both took place at the suggestion of economists who understood the importance of there being a livable planet and worked within the framework of capitalism to address this economic necessity. And the economists who have accomplished this have far more to recommend their intelligence, principle and scientific achievement than anyone ever hired by Texas Oil.
There is distinction likewise between the people who hold opposition to different types of extra-scientific disciplines. The people who most attack Abrahamic religions are different in their character from people who most attack astrology and related pursuits. The first group is more freedom-seeking, and the second group is more dogmatic and impositional. This distinction is easy to overlook, but it is when members of the first group form close relationships with members of the second group that the difference really becomes apparent. The same is true likewise in relationships formed between mathematicians and engineers.
Outside the academia, a great war has been fought between the business world and the art world. And yet the vast chunk of what is known as the civilization is a result of the activities of both worlds. When business and art work together, the result is a legacy of embodied beauty: Beautiful buildings, beautiful machinery, beautiful films and theatric performances, that either the businessman or the artist working themselves would not be able to produce. The business world vitalizes humanity's productive potential; the art world, humanity's creative potential. When productive and creative come together, are produced works of beauty - works that adorn the planet and the civilization, that draw admiration and money, and that remain as testament to the ingenuity and greatness of their creators for time to come.
With private sector and public sector, wars are ongoing. Both the private sector and public sector exist by public demand: The first, in the marketplace; the second, at the poll booth. The public sector - in its manifestations of science, Interstate, Internet, education - has been a vast contributor to private sector prosperity; and without its contributions the economy would be a fraction of its current size. Similarly, private sector's taxed income is necessary for the public sector to do its job.
In human beings themselves, there is the ongoing conflict between the natural, physical, aspect and the intellectual, volitional, aspect: the first being part of nature and congruent with nature; the second being the place of deliberate choice. Many exponents of rationality have contempt for the natural aspect; this too is a result of inadequate cognition. People who have studied nature in depth develop respect for it as possessing workings more intricate than what they have themselves been able to devise. For this reason romantic attitudes are a natural completion and continuity of the rational ones. For complete existence people must have the right to, and conservancy with, both aspects - both the freedom to express them, enjoy them and add to them, and to make the same possible for others.
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