[vlovich123]

I don’t know if it’s a plague. I see value in both approaches and going to one extreme or the other seems unhealthy. You want generalists to be working with specialists. Just generalists or just specialists won’t perform as well as a healthy mix and going to one extreme let’s the other outcompete you in certain areas.

[beaconstudios]

the plague is that right now we _are_ going to one extreme - the extreme of separation and specialisation. Systems thinkers want the two integrated, they don't want to throw out analysis and replace it with synthesis, they want the combination (synthesis!) of the two.

[gumby]

The reason I say “plague” is that effort and discussion (not just public discussion) focus on the map, not the territory itself.

Just look at us politics today: the discussions around “infrastructure” and “defense” are hobbled by the descriptions of those words rather than addressing the structural issues themselves.