these are excellent points. I'd also double down on your last point especially about Dr Bessner's rejection of human nature. He even defends this as virtuous, saying something along the lines of "we cant claim to know human nature, nobody knows human psychology"
This is a bit weak if a claim given (1) human and animal psychology is a much tighter, more falsifiable discipline than history, and (2) Dr Bessner spent most of this discussion claiming to know the motivations of "neolibs" and americans and all world leaders. I guess no one knows human nature except Dr Bessner
these are excellent points. I'd also double down on your last point especially about Dr Bessner's rejection of human nature. He even defends this as virtuous, saying something along the lines of "we cant claim to know human nature, nobody knows human psychology"
This is a bit weak if a claim given (1) human and animal psychology is a much tighter, more falsifiable discipline than history, and (2) Dr Bessner spent most of this discussion claiming to know the motivations of "neolibs" and americans and all world leaders. I guess no one knows human nature except Dr Bessner