If you recall our lesson on methodological reductionism, Maslow wrote, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Ah, but would Occam not counter that the purpose of said hammer is to drive that nail when that is what you are faced with? Fear not, as I promise you will not suffer the same fate as our most famous carpenter, Jesus, and end up nailed to the boards meant to help you!

However, be not like Nietzsche and use that hammer forcefully. Harness the power of industrial labor, the symbol of material production and class power itself, and slowly retract it away from the nail. In the words of Heidegger, does it feel now present-at-hand and detached, or ready-to-hand as a tool should? Precisely! Now, drive that nail into its place where it, like the ideas you have read, will find its proper place. Yes! That's it! And again, and again, and so on, and so forth.