Social Constructivism
One hell of a drug; the anesthetic of choice for those plagued by an existential dread brought on by the recognition that the universe does not conspire in our favour.
An ideology of attribution wherein ‘society’ is the explanation for everything because reality interferes with their sense of justice and desire to control human outcomes.
Formally accepts human agency as a reality, but either does not include it in its calculations, or finds a way to explain how it was socially or environmentally influenced. Personal responsibility is somehow always explained away, where society is a greater force than our individual capacity to make decisions in all circumstances. It is cynicism formalized as epistemology.
Everything can be explained by a theory that ignores basic reality, purportedly because they said so. Because everything is viewed through this lens by adherents, it is functionally useless because it deliberately avoids understanding anything real as a basis for postulation.
Half true and mostly misleading on the best of days.
Even a blank slate would be made of something that would limit what may be done with it. The analogy itself fails a basic examination.
People are not blank slates, because nothing is.
See: IDEOLOGY
Revised: 20 Mar 2023
