"On the whole, (well, not really on the whole, since it contains a lot of different areas each with their own details, but within each area) theoretical study is about making decisions about value as evenhandedly and widely as possible, paying as much attention to what's real and not abstract or constructed."

"also herp derp, I don't understand how positivism can be reconciled with social theories, and wittgenstein confuses me. therefore I'm latching onto Marx, who was much smarter than me, and mutating his ideas until almost nothing remains, but calling it marxist because I use all his vocabulary and structural framing"