The words 'Social Construct' can often be replaced with 'Compound Interest' or 'Environmentally Outdated Code' to retain it's virtue and reduce its overreaching.
So what you’re saying is we don’t call it a social construct until we’re ready to get rid of it?
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That's often true, though more what I was going for was that a common failure mode of the current milleu's use of 'Social Construct' is believing they are entirely social, had no use other than power grabs, and their current expressions are indicative of their initial scope.
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I feel like 'entirely social' is the sociology version of 'psychosomatic' - i.e. 'important, nebulous, confusing, and we're going to put it in a box that makes it sound like it's made up so we can pretend we don't have to deal with it'.
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I mostly agree, except that im surprised you would consider the general response as non action instead of hyper action oriented
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I think the general response is 'this thing is entirely social, therefore we can act as if it doesn't exist, and in doing so destroy it' which is kind of like blind action?
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