not everyone's going to be a scientist, or a mathematician, or a writer, or a linguist, but everyone's probably going to ask "where did we come from and why" at some point. yet we avoid teaching religion and philosophy in secondary school and instead focus on retaining specialized knowledge which will be mostly useless in the long run. that makes a lot of sense. and we won't know the impact on society until we change things... that's the beauty and downfall of social theory.
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