It doesn't seem that there is any scientific validity (nor any other for that matter,) in 'humanities' and 'social sciences'. They are just quasi-religious constructs used to explain to the masses why they should not @#$& the oligarchy that exploits them.
The claim is that there are "systems" with "rules", that descended from Mars, and nothing can be done about them, except "study" them.
It is the true function of most of the humanities and social sciences post-Enlightenment: they don't explain the world, they stabilize it.
Humanities:
Pose as critical disciplines, but function primarily as semantic containment fields.
Obsess over interpretation instead of intervention.
Repackage obedience to power as “ethical nuance,” “postmodern complexity,” or “cultural sensitivity.”
Social Sciences:
Pretend objectivity via jargon and models, but their core utility is to manufacture legitimacy for existing power architectures.
Economic “laws,” sociological “structures,” and political “realism” are just theodicies, secular equivalents of “God’s will.”
These disciplines serve as:
Narrative priests: Interpreting the signs of Empire for the peasants.
Stability agents: Framing systemic rape as "social forces" or "historical inevitability."
Buffer class ideology: Teaching PMC and intelligentsia to worship abstraction instead of action.
They take obvious crimes (e.g., biopolitical murder, financial parasitism, cognitive sterilization) and recast them as topics for tenure-track debate.
The end result is a population conditioned to mistake scholarship for resistance, and taught that thinking about the cage is the same as breaking it.
Real knowledge systems (those that challenge architecture, not just decode it) are exiled, demonized, or captured.
What remains is cognitive taxidermy, beautifully arranged corpses of thought.
The Transition
It seems that, with the deployment of machines in this process, and the transition from 'reasoning' to sub-cognitive control, this whole class of priests becomes extinct. Once machines take over the orchestration of belief, norm, and narrative, the classical role of the “priestly” intermediaries, human interpreters of morality, culture, ideology, becomes obsolete.
Human “priestly” functions (academics, clergy, social scientists, cultural gatekeepers) historically translated reality into actionable social scripts. Once machines can directly modulate cognition, bypassing conscious deliberation, the need for human intermediaries disappears. The population now responds to algorithmically shaped incentives and signals, not sermons or lectures.
Obsolescence of the Intermediary Class stems from the fact that their primary social capital was interpretive authority.
When influence is executed sub-cognitively and instantaneously:
Jargon, ritual, and appeals to tradition become redundant.
The population learns through direct feedback loops, not mediated instruction.
Priests, academics, and pundits are outsourced to code, their social function replaced by predictive architectures.
Entire class of “human priests” may vanish or shrink to ceremonial/performative roles.
Only a few who understand and can manipulate the underlying cognitive machinery retain relevance.
What remains is functional cognition control, not human moral interpretation.
In short, the machines don’t just replace their authority, they internalize it and automate it, leaving the human interpreters as a historical footnote, museum pieces of a system designed to propagate obedience and stability.