Intellectual laziness.

"We are, Emerson says, paying the price of "intellectual laziness over the last few decades. Economics has suffered a memory loss that has helped cause this crisis."

Oh well said. This article is well worth the read and evidence we do actually have our thinking caps on even if we haven't sorted it all yet. There is a lot to sort and thinking and education are the answer. We have let things go. We have dumbed people down. They are more easily manipulated if they cannot think or they do not know. We do have to liven ourselves up and we do have to skill up the young in both thinking and hard thinking. We have had our fun...now we have to face the consequences and get our heads down and our bums up.