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This is not a particularly novel observation ("the Cathedral") but I think it's worth highlighting individually elements of the set of social functions that were previously carried out by religious institutions rather than rolling them into a single low-resolution item.
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Other examples include charity and education, which were historically the domain of religious groups.
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In a sense you could think of social science and the modern welfare state as a project that functionally usurped these elements of social function from religious incumbents.
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What is worth considering is how the social science/blue state industrial complex differs from clerical organizations in basic organization and information processing. My hunch is that religions were relatively indexical in execution whereas the new system Sees Like a State
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anyway, still thinking about thishttps://twitter.com/antirobust/status/1275246731383332865?s=19 …
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all of this is work in progress and much of it is probably wrong
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Social scientists often aligned with activists.
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I dunno about that; it seems that the question of moral valence is still approached theologically, it's just that the theologians now work in English departments
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Who, not having political/civic responsibilities, are not constrained in their recommendations by things like feasibility, gamifyability, cost, unintended consequences
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even if they happen do have "social scientist" as a job title, they are (generally) barely pretending to approach the question of "what policy is desirable" in an empirical fashion
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