Yes! I appreciate that, and try to do likewise. In some ways I think our views are very similar, and in other ways very different. You almost always offer articulate perspectives which get me to think and question my own. I am grateful to often learn a few things from your posts.
I know I could have inaccurate assessments of things, and clearly say so. But others are often starting from very different fundamental assumptions, which makes mapping their interpretations onto mine quite difficult. And vice-versa, it appears. I approach society from a more ethnomethodological perspective, where it is implicit that groups do what they do for their own self-consistent reasons, which are valid from the framing of that group’s own contexts, and the benchmarks of one group have no equivalence in another. That might be an infuriating degree of relativism for some, where whether a given model seems realistic or not all depends upon what we are trying to achieve with it.
It might be more accurate to say that I doubt if anybody could be right.
