Most "humanities" profs have minimal erudition; they spent their time studying THEORIES made by other profs. Universities killed humanities - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

Basically this category would include those who think that the cure for obesity is to inform people that they should be healthy.

In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics — making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or, worse, ostracism were severe penalties — people did not move around voluntarily and considered uprooting a horrible calamity. In larger organisms like the mega holy nation-state, with a smaller role for face-to-face encounters, and social roots, shame ceases to fulfill its duty of disciplinarian.