| | Phil:
However, that kind of thought won't get you to the moon, and the failure of the intellectual community to realize that a similar rigor is required in the soft sciences is as limiting as if we had to use fuzzy approximations - pre-Newton physics to design our machines.
It is precisely that lack of rigor which enables the 'soft' sciences; the last thing in the world a religious zealot carny huckster wants is for his targets to be focused, alert, aware, and thinking.
"soft," as in, "not really a", as in, "nowhere near, but we're still going to wear the white lab coats, carry clipboards, fill up Excel spreadsheets, and take on the veneer of "science" in order to sell our religiosity, the various incarnations of Social Scientology."
"soft," as in what Feynman referred to as 'Cargo Cult Science.'
At some point in their lives, some folks look in the mirror and conclude that they're either going to be the drivers or the driven. They sum up the game as either 'have or be had.' Political 'science' -- the art of getting others to hand something over to you, be it, their vote, their sanction, their lives, their property, or even just validation for the parking of their soul -- is what the driver wannabes flee to when they realize they haven't a clue how to build beast. It is our culturally institutionalized parasitism.
The only mystery in any of this is, why the beast builders tolerate pure parasitism. In their dark crevices and under their rocks, the parasites laugh at that, and enjoy the same old, same old blood rush that has always accompanied the lout's thought, "That's not parasitism, that's slavery, you fool."
And, that is exactly when they are lost, forever, as a potential human being, retreating back to their tribal/herdist instincts, way before even homo erectus, like moths to a nihilistic flame. Not up to modernity, so damn it all, they are not going to leave the jungle, they are not going to leave the tribe, the safety of the herd. Totalitarians, collectivists, tribalists, herdists fear freedom like the plague, because freedom means ultimately, 'from each other via force.' Freedom is mankind;s death knoll to our atavistic herdist tendencies. Freedom is the end of not only tribes, but The Tribe. The 'soft sciences' -- all of them, are the spearhead of the collectivists frantic religious efforts to herd mankind back into the jungle, to maintain The Tribe. The biggest beast in the jungle was never an individual, the biggest slobbering beast in the jungle is and always was The Tribe.
It is a survival instinct of the weakest among us, the fear that their dependency on the strongest among us to provide for them that which they merely want and couldn't have otherwise might not be voluntarily provided for them. And so, these parasites sell out freedom and an honest existence in the universe, as it is, for the mere attempt at the mob's slavery, and blink away the reality of what they advocate, and in so doing, guarantee Hell on earth, because those that can always will, including, avoid the clumsy fork aimed at them by those who can't.
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