One of the things a technical education teaches you is to get confident enough in your capacity for technical comprehension that you don't get attached to any one technical concept. You have a general confidence in your ability to demystify 90% of technical things for yourself.
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I'll admit to strong bias here. I see a lot of high-ignorance immodesty within the humanities on their own turf. This has been one of the rotting effects of pomo-ization of social science/humanities. Language games becoming a substitute for domain legwork.
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I agree with some of those critiques. But as someone with a foot on both sides of the divide, STEM has its own issues. A totalizing impulse, a faddish enthusiasm for the new, too much reverence for math (the queen of all language games), blindness to institution effects, etc.
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Well I’d say the traditional liberal arts pre-dates that divide. Both cultures have their roots in it. I think you’re emphasizing an element of STEM culture that is most similar to the pre-divide mother culture.
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That I can agree with. To me a good sociologist for example, is someone with a rich understanding of the historical context of specific societies they've studied, with lots of qualitative and quantitative raw info. Not somebody who zips through town in a day and starts theorizing
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