We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war. R. Buckminster Fuller
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People are becoming more specialized in their jobs and are leaving other areas of life to others. This is leading to people being isolated from the rest of the world. If everyone is not doing what they are supposed to do, there is no one to coordinate the rest of the world. Instead, people are becoming more specialized in their jobs and leaving everything else to other people. The result is that all areas of life are being left to chance, which can lead to war.

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