Just googled the name of a cool synthwave song and then this comes up.

This is literally just pseudo-religious drivel made up by a bunch of weird jackoffs in academia applying value judgements to human behaviour using totally subjective, arbitrary points of reference like "socially acceptable", "civilization", and "normal".

All fine and valid if it was a subset of philosophy, but the fact that people take this seriously as a hard science is mind boggling. Postmodern neoliberalism is one hell of a drug.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    scientific rigor has its limits when we're dealing with human beings. you can never rule out the confounding variables when it comes to us, there's just too much shit going on at the same time. societies aren't the tidy laboratories that chemists can work with, it's always messy and confusing and unclear. this is a problem that all psychologists i can take seriously (so, not jordan peterson) are aware of, see the whole controversies around the replication crisis. a psychologist who still hasn't moved beyond Freud is a complete quack and not representative of what psychology is, or could be, today.