-> With the Hopes that our World is built on
-> They were utterly out of touch,
-> They denied that the Moon could be defined to be Stilton;
-> They denied she identified as Dutch;
-> They denied that Wishes should be categorized as Horses;
-> They denied that a Pig could be stipulated to have Wings;
-> So we worshipped the Gods of the Market
-> Who promised these beautiful things.
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-> —Rudyard Kipling, ["The Gods of the Copybook Headings"](http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm) (paraphrased)
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-This post is a reply to [friend of the blog](/tag/ozy/) Ozymandias's [reply](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/man-should-allocate-some-more-categories/) to [my reply](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/) to Scott Alexander's ["The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories"](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/). The reply ends up covering a lot of worldview-ground, so ideas in this post may be expanded upon in future posts.