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is anti-human. Coherence, precision and predictability are only possible in human affairs by suppressing man as he really is.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past. Eric Hoffer

is an approach that invents a certain brand of human we can understand.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. (Taleb)

is not scientific at all, just as social media is severely antisocial, health foods are empirically unhealthy, and knowledge workers are very ignorant.

Social media are severely antisocial, health foods are empirically unhealthy, knowledge workers are very ignorant, and social sciences aren’t scientific at all.

is a field striving to quantify the obvious.

The specialist, in the social sciences, strives above all to quantify the obvious.

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