Toward Ecosophy

The word that immediately came to mind in this thread was “interdisciplinary”, which was something to be sought out during my undergrad degree at a liberal arts college, but seems to be a dirty word here in Australia. Higher education has become ever more blinkered, kids choose their majors straight away and there are no gen ed requirements, so they aren’t even exposed at an introductory level to ways of thinking in other fields, and the main reaction from most students is, why should I bother with anything not directly related to my major, what could it possibly teach me? Pattern recognition or application across different disciplines is treated with such contempt. Just learn what’s in the textbook for the exam and don’t think any more about anything. So here we are.