Screw the "humanities" - abbreviated thoughts

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Paying attention to recent politics has really hammered home some things.

All social sciences are stamp collecting exercises at best and an attempt to monopolise either common sense or bullshit at worst. It seems that there is a huge class of unintelligent people with degrees (almost always in social science or humanities subjects) who treat social scientists (or "experts") as all knowing prophets. "Disliking Islam is irrational" "Supporters of X are conveying their Authoritiarian Loving personalities". Its not new.

Even though Economics has not led to the ability to make viable predictions about macroeconomics people in this field have no trouble claiming a monopoly over all sorts of shit.

Even "high culture" is no different. The Republic was literally a wankfest dream by Plato but it is worshipped solely because it is old and other people worship it. It would make no difference whether Plato was praising a technocracy or a democracy or worshipping chickens. What matters is that its old and people can be seen to be praising it.

Also there are people who seriously think that "rigour" and "critical thinking" are thinks you can only get from a university degree.

History the academic subject is just stamp collecting with a marketing / PR spin put on it. Historians have nothing to say.

Philosophy is a circlejerk within the infinite space of unfalsifiable things to say. Of course the humanities and social sciences are leftist West hating breeding grounds.

It is clear that people use Shakespeare as a God to worship rather than look at him for what he was: a guy who wrote plays for people with less education than 7 year olds today. This is because many art forms are used solely as a social posturing tool by pseudo intellectuals.