Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Absolutely. There's a lot of good work in economics, quantitative political science, and sociology of neglected subcultures. But the dominant ideologies are too dominant.

Fair point. OTOH, we'd benefit far more by upgrading our Emotional Intelligence than our technology. We're running an Emotional OS that's like 4,000 years out of date.

Social scientists could clock stuff accelerating to 60,000 miles per second while falling into a black hole if they wanted to. They seem to prefer less tractable and more down to earth problems.

Well, social scientists get laid in the intellectual circle by arguing about their theories... That alone justifies the whole process.

Oh sure, phenomenology. But is reason adequate to comprehend such phenomena as the truly are, in and of themselves?

You mean "complicated stuff"?