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0060 I now enter disciplinary territory that Professor Saad cannot go<\/em>, because it currently stands outside his academic turf of evolutionary psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the turf of evolutionary psychology<\/em> so limited?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember evolutionary psychology arises as a biological discipline, attempting to account for models proposed by cognitive psychology in terms of natural selection, adaptation and niche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0061 However, what if the ultimate (not proximate) human niche<\/em> is the potential of traidic relations,<\/em> as proposed in Razie Mah’s masterwork, The Human Niche<\/em> (available at smashwords and other e-book venues)?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, the discipline of evolutionary psychology<\/em> expands, because triadic relations participate in so many human adaptations<\/em>.  Models proposed by cognitive psychology<\/em> describe only a small fraction of human behaviors in our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.  Imagine the wealth of material, since the start of writing, waiting to be diagrammed in terms of triadic relations.  These diagrams would be subject matter for an expanded discipline of evolutionary psychology<\/em>.  And, that is just the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, in Comments on Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky’s Book (2016) Why Only Us?<\/em>, Razie Mah proposes that the three-level interscope may serve as a way to describe langue<\/em> (that is, what goes on in our minds when we talk<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, a completed three-level interscope <\/em>is intellectually satisfying.  Once a three level interscope is complete, no element stands empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0062 But, there is more than one meaning to the term, “empty”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saad’s designation of the nouvelle academy as “ostrich parasitic syndrome” implies three types of emptiness.  Each word associates to a type of emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0063 The first emptiness<\/em> comes from the actuality2a<\/sub> that a personal choice must be made<\/em>.  A human will1a<\/sub> is not relevant unless it is decisive.  Is that the case?  According to orthodox views3a<\/sub>, human will has to work with what nature and God provides1a<\/sub><\/em>.  Males are men2a<\/sub>.  Females are women2a<\/sub>.  The will of God1a<\/sub><\/em> stands in the emptiness of the actuality2a<\/sub> of social construction3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0064 The second emptiness<\/em> comes from the fact that the oppressor2b<\/sub><\/em> is the host and the oppressed2b<\/sub><\/em> is the parasite, in the virtual normal context of a privileged status for the oppressed2c<\/sub><\/em>.  This emptiness is filled by the obvious meaning of the terms, “oppressor” and “oppressed”.  The parasite expresses an inversion of meaning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0065 The third emptiness<\/em> comes from the perspective level, where the normal context social justice3c<\/sub> brings the actuality of privileged status for the oppressed2c<\/sub> into relation with the potential of protection (that is, a safe space)1c<\/sub>.  Saad uses the metaphor of the ostrich, a large-bodied but small-brained bird that refuses to see what it does not want to see.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College of Social Construction<\/em> is in denial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it denying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look past what it is asserting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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