The opposite of specialization is generalization. The premise doesn't get much respect, as these would be considered dilettantes, by those devoted to particular fields, yet there are reasons the people running armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private. When everyone is a specialist, the effect is this global Tower of Babel.
The people who would be natural generalists are those who, as children, would be interested in everything that catches their eye, then gradually sense how the disparate parts might fit together. Yet they are also the ones diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated until their minds go back in the box.
As someone who grew up mostly outside, literally and figuratively, I've come to see a fair number of ways the big picture is missed, though only a limited number of people seem able to let go of their cultural conditioning enough to see outside the boxes.
I raised one of these points in a prior comment, to your essay on futurism, about how, as mobile organisms, with a sequential process of perception, as a function of navigation, we experience time as this flow from past to future, while it would be change turning future to past. So there is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Cause becomes effect.
Since I didn't get a response, I suppose I'll try another logical fallacy, built into our view of reality.
While debates over the logic of Western monotheism have grown long in the tooth, no one seems to point out that a spiritual absolute would necessarily be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The fact that we are aware, than the details of which we are aware. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.
While this might seem a moot point in terms of science, the fact is that it has cast a long shadow over the evolution of Western culture, to assume an ideal, which is aspirational, is absolute, which is elemental.
The effect is that many, if not most of the ideologies that have risen in the West, tend to see their ideals as absolute and universal, rather than emergent and unique
The Ancients were not oblivious to monotheism, but equated it with monocultural authoritarianism. One people, one ruler, one god.
Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, which were the Ancient's interpretation of multiculturalism, as tribal societies gave way to more cosmopolitian states.
The Romans adopted Christianity, as they fully embraced empire and shed any remnants of the republic.
When the West went back to these more populist forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics.
One big problem Islam and the West have, in reconciling their worldviews, is this split is incoherent to Islam, as they see religion as integral to governance.
I could come up with a number of other ideas, but it is safe to say that the siloing in our current culture has come to define it and the lives of those inhabiting it and actually breaking down those boxes in any truly meaningful way is only going to happen when the Tower does actually fall.
We are quantized, atomized, digitized, monetized, linear and goal oriented, while nature remains cyclical, reciprocal, circular, analog and feedback generated.
