98b jbml thln I had in mind precisely


THE ANALOGIES
YOU MENTION TO SOCIAL PHENOMENA
WHEN I CRITICIZED THE REIFICATION OF THE CARTESIAN COORDINATE IDEA,
IT'S EXTENSION TO THE IDEA OF EMPTY SPACE-TIME AS AN "ARENA" FOR PHYSICAL EVENTS,
AND THE RELATED ABSTRACTION OF FORCES THAT PERMEATE THIS BACKGROUND ARENA.

THE PHYSICAL VIEWPOINT THAT EMPHASIZES FOUNDATIONAL QUANTITIES ~
RECIPROCAL DYADIC PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS THAT DEPEND ON THEIR LOCALIZED SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SEPARATION, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE "arena" ~ IS INDEED MORE COMPELLING, BOTH IN PHYSICS AND SOCIAL THEORY, BECAUSE BY PROCEEDING WITHOUT REFERENCE TO "background forces" THAT MATERIALIZE FROM THE "arena", IT AVOIDS THE NEED
TO SUBSEQUENTLY DECONSTRUCT THOSE FORCES.

MOREOVER THE VIEWPOINT SEEMS CLOSER TO THE DIALECTICA APPROACH OF HEGEL AND MARX, IN WHICH "UNVERSAL FORCES" are no more than shorthand for interactions among humans who participate in the creation of systems that evolve into the Stalinist and Nazi regimes.

Diamond's analysis is protected from the charge of moral relativism by a principle of moral relativity ~ events appear differently when viewed from different perspectives, but by considering in detail how and why the frames of reference differ,
the divergent perceptions of the same underlying events
can be correlated.
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