10-29-2013, 01:34 AM
(10-28-2013, 09:58 PM)Jester Wrote: We, alone in the universe, can escape the cosmic clockwork and *choose* our ice cream, but our social constraints bind harder than the physical world? This seems ... unlikely.
-Jester
By physical do you mean the laws of actual physics? If so, then no, our social constraints do not bind us more than the physical world. Humans have a better chance of overthrowing capitalism than they do of being able to jump into outer space (Michael Jordan being the one exception - I kid
).But this is also why the 'soft' sciences are in a way more complicated than the hard sciences. The latter have less variables and thus can be tested in a controlled lab, but you can't put history in a lab and test it, and even if you could, there would still likely be too many variables to be able to predetermine an outcome. Yet paradigms are observable. DM is pretty useful in that sense.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)