Psychology: "Hijacked, insane, and dysfunctional"

In One Cosmos, Gagdad Bob writes,

…Think of how much more we know about the cosmos now than 300 years ago, at the beginning of the scientific revolution. But think of how much larger the cosmos has grown with the knowledge: 300 years ago the size was manageable, which is to say, imaginable. But now its vastness is quite literally unimaginable. It’s hard to imagine a single galaxy, let alone 200 billion. How about 2 trillion? Never mind.

It’s no different with the mind: if we’re honest — or mature — the more we know, the less we know. I earned my PhD back in 1988, since which time my ignorance has only increased, as it should. But “leftist psychology” is no less insane and dysfunctional than leftist economics, and the left has increasingly hijacked the discipline of psychology over the past thirty years.

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