The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly super… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare.

There should be no privilege for being wealthy. But there should be no shame, no guilt for being wealthy.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.