One of my fundamental disagreements with the monopolies of the academic social pseudo-sciences is that they overwhelmingly ASSUME human nature does not exist, that “people become the way they are because of culture, social conditioning [education and Media and…], economic incentives…..” This was already at the extreme at Harvard when I was an undergrad [1955-1958]. Skinner was the ultimate extreme with his rat-psycology assumptions about human beings. But all the faculty except a few anthropologists like Kluckhohn [whose great grad. course on ethnology from bio and bones to high culture I LOVED] assumed society is a separate level of existence … Continue reading The Empire’s Paranoid Power Lust