Who says I single out economists? I've written only a few articles on economics, and dozens criticizing many other aspects of secular society. For example, I talk about the potential self-destruction from our mode of progress as deriving from the promethean impulse in ancient humanism, which informs all scientific and technological endeavours. And I talk about the existential factors in the rise of civilization as a way of shutting out the indifference of the wilderness.

This stuff on economics is only a small, optional part of my worldview. That's why I don't care if you disagree with it. The question doesn't mean much to me one way or the other. That's not to say I'm being disingenuous in pushing this line of argument. But this is quite peripheral for me.

Rather than scapegoating economists, I blame mostly the Democrats and Republicans, and the dominance hierarchies that emerge even in modern societies. Economists are just some cheerleaders and priestly obscurantists that dress up as scientists. Obviously they're not responsible for capitalism or for progressive civilization.

I don't think people from different cultures have entirely different modes of experience. That's because there are plenty of commonalities across all cultures. But we often interpret even those commonalities differently based on our history, culture, and so on. The presuppositions of postindustrial societies are grounded in certain foundational events from our history and in our social contexts.