I do appreciate going to a Liberal Art school and still do think that STEM fields should include that as a core curriculum. Most STEM people I know are completely ignorant of what is going on in our society right now. They remember hearing about Plato, Kant, Hobbes, etc., but can't quite put their finger on the main issues in our current society that you and I are aware of. My few engineer friends are/were pro masks and vaccines. They're rational people, but I think they're so wrapped/autistic in their respective fields that they miss the forest for the trees, your know? It's like that David Foster Wallace analogy where one fish meets another one and says "the water is nice today" and the other fish asks "what is water?". Our eduction system is definitely fucked to accommodate the lowest common denominator and unfortunately it's our women and niggers. I do think that a college degree should produce something better than an accountant or a machinist. While we should strive for more we now strive for less? Just my musings.