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What concerns me is how society privileges and emphasizes the abstract over the contextual.

Some examples of this:

STEM vs the Humanities: Employers and society in general tend to favor and admire people with STEM backgrounds over humanities backgrounds. Even within STEM, the "hard sciences" are seen as more valuable than the "soft sciences", where hardness and softness are largely judged by how much abstraction they require (with, for example, physics and math being seen as very 'hard').