Strongly held beliefs, even objectively false ones, like a child thinking Santa Clause brings presents, to the weak minded, do give comfort. I can understand.
Expressing scrutiny, or questioning those beliefs, tends to result in anger and resentment, such as you exhibit, rather than a Socratic or Thomistic evaluation and apologia, to use the Greek term here.
I’ve done plenty of evaluation through the many books that explain how the economy really works behind closed doors. I know Economics 101 is just as fake as History 101. I know who pulls the levers and how they do it.
Your view is often quite naively accepted as required by scientific procedure, has some rather paradoxical consequences. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. And because the effects of these facts in any particular instance cannot be confirmed by quantitative evidence, they are simply disregarded by those sworn to admit only what they regard as scientific evidence: they thereupon happily proceed on the fiction that the factors which they can measure are the only ones that are relevant.
Strongly held beliefs, even objectively false ones, like a child thinking Santa Clause brings presents, to the weak minded, do give comfort. I can understand.
Expressing scrutiny, or questioning those beliefs, tends to result in anger and resentment, such as you exhibit, rather than a Socratic or Thomistic evaluation and apologia, to use the Greek term here.
I’ve done plenty of evaluation through the many books that explain how the economy really works behind closed doors. I know Economics 101 is just as fake as History 101. I know who pulls the levers and how they do it.
It’s quite elementary Agent Smith.
Your view is often quite naively accepted as required by scientific procedure, has some rather paradoxical consequences. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. And because the effects of these facts in any particular instance cannot be confirmed by quantitative evidence, they are simply disregarded by those sworn to admit only what they regard as scientific evidence: they thereupon happily proceed on the fiction that the factors which they can measure are the only ones that are relevant.