It is a real shame. You can put all sorts of time and energy into learning some sort of material skill, and then it shows quite readily for one's peers: "My my you can really swing a hammer, and wow that's a beautiful house you built," and etc.
But put all of that time and energy into learning about political, cultural, and personal relationships, and then display the fruits of that labor, and then watch as the insults fly, and you are labeled the transgressor and madperson.
This disconnect is partially owed to a set of shared values, which impose a sort of objectified structure of evaluation, outside of which exist what we refer to as transgression and/or nonsense. Currently the dominant cluster of values happen to be largely material, and so people are primed to recognize them and appreciate them more readily.
Imagine if our values were to shift radically, and suddenly one's amazing technical skills are regarded with: "what are you doing pouring all of that concrete and metal over that perfectly fine soil, what is the matter with you?"
