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>certain unexplored areas are slightly more interesting in the eye of the public the others
>"Philosophers" and "Humanities" "scholars" pile in to these areas with shitloads of books, newspaper articles, seminars, study groups, courses, television appearances, new job titles (mainly created through the addition of suffixes), jargon filled journal articles, and degrees
>institutions claim a monopoly over the ability to make any "worthwhile" speculations about these areas
>the "failure" of the scientific method is advertised far and wide
>Hegel and Marx are shown to have predicted everything already
>the bust of Aristotle sheds a tear on the chalk