july

"Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."- Mignon McLaughlin

Maybe I'm seeing it too one-sidedly, but I have the feeling that the troublemakers, the non-conformists and the rebels are being celebrated a bit more at the moment. (Trump, Elon, RFK, Thiel, Balaji,...) 
I have the feeling that we are in a post-institutional phase. This has positive and negative effects. People are starting to question everything, which in my opinion is a good thing. On the whole, I am a friend of disruption/challenging the status quo and not a friend of the terms "settled science" or "the end of history"
But I also see the danger that science and the "experts" will be fundamentally rejected and we will swing into the other extreme.

Sapiens qui prospicit - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and religion.

The problem is the current non-conformist culture promotes do your own research and not do your own experiments. This leads to deciding truth based on marketing and influencing vibes, which is not sustainable. A new enlightenment era will follow with slightly improved academic institutes still at the center.

Thanks for your thoughts. 
That really makes sense.