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Intellectual vacuum
Name(s):
Conceptual vacuum
Lack of unifying ideas
Claim
The West is haunted by a spectre of an intellectual vacuum. This is not for lack of sophisticated new ideas, rather it is a lack of unifying ideas of relevance to the crisis of the times.
This problem is a member of 1 aggravating loop
Aggravates
Policy vacuum
[in 1 loop]
Aggravated by
Spiritual void
Fragmentation of knowledge
Suppression of intellectual freedom
Strategy(ies)
Providing sufficient unifying ideas
Abstaining from unifying ideas
Value(s)
Lack
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems