Societal Conformity and Efficiency – Hans-Peter Dürr

„Society wants people to travel on fixed tracks. That way, you know where they’ll end up in an hour. This is more predictable than if they were to walk. It’s a disaster if they veer off onto a path into the woods halfway through the journey: Where will that get us? What about our efficiency? What about our dominance in the global market?“

Hans-Peter DürrHans-Peter Dürr criticizes societal expectation for people to travel fixed paths instead of taking individual routes.
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Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist and essayist.

A critical perspective on societal conformity and the emphasis on efficiency.


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Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist and essayist. He served several times on the directorate of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and worked closely with Werner Heisenberg for many years. Later, he increasingly focused on questions of epistemology and social policy.

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