[chmsky00]

It’s because our society has been trained to be risk averse so we don’t challenge traditional power memes. “Keep calm, carry on.” Thought ending slogans are what we’re weened on.

Mens biology predisposes them to anxious rage and we avoid it to avoid making daddy mad.

We won’t do anything to avoid the cost impact to the poor because it will cost the rich.

The biology of our politics is really well understood.

But I get it; it’s more fun to pretend you live in your own multiverse conjuring ad hoc explanations for everything.

This has nothing to do with abstract constructs you can’t name. That’s just a byproduct of you not having embedded muscle memory to announce one.

This forum really enjoys thinking it’s onto something millions of humans that came before have never considered while conjuring ideas within very similar social constraints as the last generation (especially in typical office life). Same old biology + new words != new insights.

I’m not one for tradition, and believing there’s something more to it all is a human tradition going back to our beginning.

In a political context, it’s always humans doing human stuff and that should be constrained to protect the freedom of humans being human.

It’s only in the abstract sciences are new ideas being created. I’m really tired of these articles about economics when “political capture by aristocrats” is enough to explain most of the issues.