pull out the biggest guns

Bill Bonner quotes Einstein and invokes the names of Darwin and Newton in deriving an excuse for human stupidity. I hope he writes tongue in cheek, but too many people do not recognize value and hence destroy it, wittingly or unwittingly. Here is a quote - the rest of the essay is entertaining.

Humans evolved in small groups, where they could know the particulars of things. They understood the threats they faced...and knew what was valuable. But when the scale and sophistication of human civilization increased, man found himself in a situation for which his brain was not prepared. He no longer had the precise, specific, direct information he needed. Instead, he needed to rely on a new kind of knowledge made up of abstractions, generalities and slogans. This new knowledge, which Nietzsche called "Wissen" to distinguish it from the more ancient form of experience-based knowledge called "Erfahrung," trips him up, because it is too far removed from the facts. The Inverse Square law and Darwin’s law both work against him.