The Two Cultures Gaps and Traps: An Imbalanced Socio-Technological Dynamic?

The Two Cultures (C.P.Snow, 1959) identifies a split between the humanities and the sciences in "mutual incomprehension." Controversies impede resolving this polarization, possibly contributing to societal declines. Reinterpretations suggest affinities between cultural innovative and evolutionary processes. Preventing an innovative formalism as a tool for choices from turning into a formalistic close ended or choiceless tool and "progress trap" is identified as a pivotal challenge. Projections for a humanist-scientific and socio- technological equilibrium are simplified with dynamic variances among extreme TWO CULTURES divides as polarizing traps without a moderating THIRD CULTURE. Apparent opposites might translate paradoxically into complemental contraries: "Without paradox no progress" (Niels Bohr, 1885-1962).