I actually don't think of it as reductionist but do agree the linkages are the most important.

FYI -I am in your lovely (but rainy) state. Found lots of lobster mushrooms and chicken of woods yesterday but the rain is blowing horizontal on the coast today so its cozy by the fire catching up on reading...I too Love Oregon.

Hi Nate,

Just an anecdote: Sometime when I have time (which "peak oil" doesn't seem to provide us with) - I could share w. you some work and questions I had re: my brief foray into ev psych. There's some excellent work being done, of course, and also some work w. (IMVHO) very questionable premises that no one in the field questions. Among some researchers/practitioners, my "VHO" is that there is a kind of reductionist thinking going on, which is subtle, in a way, and kind of self-reinforcing. It's work to lay it all out - and then again, one needs a receptive audience.