Re: statism, that’s very fair, and it was what you said. I think I was partially responding to the “political elite” comment you were also responding to.

Totally agree, we can only speak certainties about real-world conditions, and the tendency toward abstraction and hypotheticals IMO is sort of a negative tendency in many ways.

I keep writing more, but I don’t wanna get way in the weeds. Def appreciate the thoughtful response