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• now, we should be clear here: social theory, always, necessarily, involves a bit of simplification. for instance, almost any human action might be said to have a political aspect, an economic aspect, a psycho-sexual aspect and so forth. social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there's just one thing going on: essentially, we reduce everything to a cartoon so as to be able to detect patterns that would be otherwise invisible. as a result, all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous: the work of karl marx, sigmund frued or claude levi-strauss being only particular salient cases in point. one must simplify the world to discover something new... (查看原文)

  2赞 2022-03-16 06:47:14

• if human beings, through most of our history, have moved back and forth fluidly between different social arrangements, assembling and dismantling hierarchies on a regular basis, maybe the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ how did we end up in one single mode? how did we lose that political self-consciousness, once so typical of our species? how did we come to treat eminence and subservience not as temporary expedients, or even the pomp and circumstance of some kind of grand seasonal theatre, but as inescapable elements of the human condition? if we started out just playing games, at what point did we forget that we were playing? (查看原文)

  3赞 2022-05-14 07:59:17

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