Lets be clear, STEM is what put us on the top of the food chain. Without the ability to engineer tools like spears and axes we would have been obliterated by saber toothed tigers. The humanities are good for making the world prettier but are absolutely useless for actually living in it. A painting can't cure illnesses. A song can't produce enough food to sustain our species. Without STEM we all die.
Lets be clear, STEM is what put us on the top of the food chain. Without the ability to engineer tools like spears and axes we would have been obliterated by saber toothed tigers. The humanities are good for making the world prettier but are absolutely useless for actually living in it. A painting can't cure illnesses. A song can't produce enough food to sustain our species. Without STEM we all die.
Without humanities, humans can't survive, full stop. Without humanities, there is no knowledge to create hunting groups, no societies or ways to improve societeis, no language to create STEM. I'm not saying STEM isn't also important, but your assessment of humanities is nothing more than a caricature. We need both.
A head with no heart is a cold machine. A heart with no head is a wild animal. But, if you had to choose, which is more important?
I think it is a little too easy to say that the head is overworking, and that the heart should speak more, but many of the institutions we've come to rely on and associate with humanity majors and social science are just that: science. Law, economy, and leadership are all important cultural facets that owe at least some part of their development to STEM. Without logic to temper it, emotion can quickly turn into a fire. I think the recent chaos that has swept parts of the world shows how blinding emotions can become and how much a culture suffers when the social sciences it relies on fail it.
The simple fact is that humans are social creatures, and anything that betters society betters all of humanity. However, we need science and technology to protect that society and solve its problems, or else it will eventually die on its own.
At least that's what I think.
World with only the STEM students goneHumanities students know the answer