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We don't have to choose between the burden of ultimate truth (a la socionics) and blissful ignorance. Understanding socionics implies understanding its scope. People are so complex, and our environments impact us in so many ways, that while socionics does help us understand people's motivations and interactions, it hardly reduces human interaction to an absolute, deterministic mechanical formula. You could understand socionics perfectly and still be completely mystified by human behavior.
Socionics only depersonalizes interactions if you've assigned it powers it doesn't have and bent all of reality to fit into its finite framework. It's easy to fall into this trap -- I know I've done it before. But a better question would be this: recognizing that socionics is a useful but limited tool VS. living in a fantasy land where the universe unfolds according to grand socionical principles and socionics reveals the human species' master plan, sucking life dry of all mystery and meaning.
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