One of the reasons that STEM is emphasized so strongly now is because being in STEM requires for the most part zero critical thinking and little to no systems thinking (outside of the super-tiny focus area). STEM grads are no threat to anything. Funneling people into STEM neutralizes them.

It’s better to have someone running around who knows a lot about one tiny little (mostly inconsequential) thing who can build a missile at the end of all that propaganda…er, I mean education, than someone like Clarissa or me, who can tell you the entire sociocultural history of the effects of such decisions and furthermore what makes them a bad idea.