listen to yourself, though. sociology isn't even as old as the US! you are confusing the map - contemporary psychological, sociological, and political understanding - for the terrain - why other people do things
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
Quantum theory is barely a century old, and yet we're using it to build computers. Venerability is not a defense, and sociology didn't need to be invented in order to describe human nature.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @a_man_in_black
History itself tells us how humans behave, and it's remarkably accurate (once you learn to account for source bias)
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
we do not have anything even approaching a perfect grasp of history - it may not even be possible
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
I agree that a perfect grasp is likely not possible, but we do the best with what we have, and what we have is pretty illuminating.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
the entirety of human history has been people doing the best with what they have
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
Hard disagree. It's been people doing the best *for their immediate tribe* with what they have.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
the idea of the common welfare of humanity as a whole is itself an invented idea. I happen to think it's a good one, but it doesn't exist on some platonic plane
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
I fully agree (see Terry Pratchett's book The Hogfather, DEATH's speech to Susan near the end of the book). That being said, if we don't strive for it, there's no point (and also irrelevant to the discussion, since we're talking about how jumped-up apes react to stimuli).
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @a_man_in_black
It is so weird/awesome watching the Vikings' former punter-turned-writer and a guy I know from an almost completely orthogonal community have this hour long, animated, and frankly rather enlightening discussion of history.
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We are here to entertain. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
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