lessons learned from my colloquium

[intertribal]

so apparently my real theoretical fight is with the realists, not the rationalists, and they are not the same thing (yes, starting with the same letter and having similar connotations is not enough).  because you apparently cannot fight with rational choice.  it is the unbeatable ID, it is 42, it is God with a capital G.  give rationalists any situation, perhaps even situations that involve prehistoric plants, and they will tell you that it fits their theory.  they are magic.  they are the sacred cow, the undying worm. 

whatever.  realism it is.

*rolls eyes*

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Bourdieu would probably also say (in a much more complex and convoluted way than i'm about to, and so possibly i'll get it wrong) that the objectivist standpoint is in fact a way of perceiving the world that is itself grounded in a certain social position--one of power and dominance or at least leisure, where indeed the social world can seem to be a representation or performance, and social actors acting out roles, and many symbolic interactions occur, whereas when you are under the force of this structure, you react, you don't have the leisure to observe and reflect, that's a form of wealth, for better or worse...this is part of his argument i'm leaving out and one he returns to later in his life.