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reminder to engage with society

I am generally comfortable with my role in society as one who studies it. Every now and then I am uncomfortably reminded that people do not want to know how dumb they are. Many do not think of

- conscious experience as a quantifiable manifold
- emotional experience as an analytic category
- personal identity as a trivial commodity 
- the physics of their kinesthesia
- the chemistry of their nutrition
- the informatics of their nervous and endocrinal systems
- the engineering of their social relations 
- the structure of law and governments

So, I can only tell myself, shut up about plebs as much as possible. Observe them without communication. However, I do think it is civil to engage with plebs, in as much as that is what is required for education of individuals and societies in the long run. 

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