I personally find physics attractive because it’s as close as you can get to a fundamental, first-principles understanding of how the Universe works. That feels like a terminal goal. Maybe it’s secretly a social prestige goal, but it doesn’t feel that way.
It seems kind of dark-artsish to try to change people’s terminal goals for your own reasons I’m not saying that’s never right, just that it seems like something to perk up and be suspicious of.
And you actually haven’t even said what your reason actually are. Do you want better allocation of human resources for social goals, or something like that? Then who gets to pick the social goals? Why should anybody have to “justify the attraction” to anybody else?
Or is it individual? Do you think that studying physics will make people less happy than studying economics because they’ll get more chances to apply economics?
… and what’s this “real world” you’re talking about? I get a nervous feeling like there’s something coiled up inside that concept waiting to strike.
I personally find physics attractive because it’s as close as you can get to a fundamental, first-principles understanding of how the Universe works. That feels like a terminal goal. Maybe it’s secretly a social prestige goal, but it doesn’t feel that way.
It seems kind of dark-artsish to try to change people’s terminal goals for your own reasons I’m not saying that’s never right, just that it seems like something to perk up and be suspicious of.
And you actually haven’t even said what your reason actually are. Do you want better allocation of human resources for social goals, or something like that? Then who gets to pick the social goals? Why should anybody have to “justify the attraction” to anybody else?
Or is it individual? Do you think that studying physics will make people less happy than studying economics because they’ll get more chances to apply economics?
… and what’s this “real world” you’re talking about? I get a nervous feeling like there’s something coiled up inside that concept waiting to strike.