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hey fellow sociologist!

the one that imho is really missing is "work", from smith to marx till the present day it has been a cornerstone of social science

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What do you two sociologists think of the "fear" entry?

and, on the Sparta/1984 nexus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572

(Now I'm curious as to what specific fear, whether more phobian or more deimosian, had a temple at Sparta.)

Edit: Phobos. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Philosophers often miss that one.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/359

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...

weird how one of the messages we keep hearing is that automation is just around the corner and everyone needs to be paid to not work. with the breakdown of this and many of the others in the list, it seems to me like someone understands this and doesn't want a cohesive society.

agreed, though there needn't be a conflict. with automation freeing us from mundane labor, we could actually focus on doing meaningful work. work that advances our society globally, that helps to eliminate poverty and lack of education, etc. there is plenty of work to go around that, can't be automated which would allow us to create bonds in our society in a way that no factory work could achieve

Who'd've thunk, two sociologists on the orange website! I thought about including Marx, but it seemed a bit complicated, because there is no trans-historical conception of social cohesion in his work. Marx arguably thinks the glue of bourgeois society is ideology. Work is the glue of a class-in-itself, which is not coterminous with "society" under capitalism.

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