[tinideiznaimnou]

>but it's a bit hard to know what to do with them except inform one's own crackpot theories about psychology and civilization.

But that's exactly what you're supposed to do with it! Personal crackpot theories are beautiful in a way that no mainstream ideology will ever be. More useful, too - as they're attuned to one's own lived experiences in this world, and not to the ideal spherical rational agent in a vacuum that the bean-counters assume.