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Is the Sociology Inside the Host Organism?
The problem when a field gets too big is that it doesn't have to refer outside, right? The ability to communicate outside of your area is really important for the health of the field. I think many fields reach a point that they're so self-sustaining that nobody in that field feels the need to talk out. And as long as we're still making everyone in our community happy and speaking the same language then we're all doing fine. But you are emissuating communities if you start telling other people that they're stupid. It's when you test others' understanding by saying "I don't know why anyone would want to go off into a cloistered monastery and talk to