Sociology
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These are 3 inscriptions where Gowda is used in the sense of kula/jathi. 1st img from Mandya 2nd from Chikkamagaluru 3rd from Davanagere Gowda was used as a title as well as alte...
LONG🧵 on Gunas. Part 2 - RAJAS The rajas guna is associated with activity, dynamism, and ambition. Without Rajas, there will be no activity, no desire to make things better. It...
(Not attack). Hoplites were indeed drawn from the middle ranks of citizens, but the citizenry of a polis constituted a ruling class analogous to the nobility medieval continental E...
idk if i've framed it like this before when talking about trust and freedom etc: a person who bullies themselves, while kinda grotesque and tragic, is in some sense more 'trustwor...
🧵The Shape of Doom to Come🧵 1/ There's a lot of doomerism in the US and while some of this can verge really deranged, there are some really core insights you get from Rad Libertar...
I expected such questions. But I have data and am informed. In British India, today's Pakistan region was growing at 1.6% per annum whereas India only at 0.4% per annum. Pakistan...
Environmentalism from the West comes from a position of superiority, claims of universalism and stems from egocentrism. The reason to preserve the environment is because “resources...
Why do men (not just Muslim men) subscribe to and follow these redpill figures, the youth especially? I think it's an important question to ask in order to understand the current...
Democracy and diversity has made healthy paternalism difficult. So there are people who can use drugs like cocaine recreationally. They’re high-status professionals with firm self...
Thread with excerpts from "Nation, Language, Islam: Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement" by Helen M. Faller https://t.co/IeJlkVRUUm
Men don’t suppress women’s sexuality. WOMEN do. Here’s how and why: https://t.co/DVYNqYWRP8
One of the greatest pitfalls of modernity is the possibility we all have of losing the point of it all. There are 100s of ways in which this lures us in. It isn't exclusive to mode...
Marriage is dead & women played a big role in killing it. Here are 5 reasons why young people aren’t getting married:
I wonder if the results would change if the poll question was posed differently. "The world is controlled by a secretive elite" seems loaded to me. I would struggle with the word...
Road Accidents in India https://t.co/KTG3b5nhC0 https://t.co/dRnomc36Ut Fatalities were 1,19,860 in 2008 & 5,23,193 injuries 1,53,972 dead in 2021 with 3,84,448 injuries of which...
"Brahmanon ke paas sara gyan" is so boring man. This is the same zone that Kancha Ilaiah is also stuck in. Absolutely zero interest in acknowledgement of what industrial revolution...
@Saiarav That’s natural evolution and ok. Reformists haven’t taken too many actions but this is in the realm of description of a post/ non jAti Hinduism and the drawbacks of that....
https://t.co/wNPJJNqvgh UK was a low crime society then, confirmed by people who lived through those yrs on both good & bad (post war rationing). Lee Kuan Yew confirmed same & note...
jaati per se is not culture but it is the smallest vehicle of culture we hv. jaatis do come together to create kulas & sampradayas, like atoms create molecules and long chain molec...
How Bernays got women to start smoking cigarettes in a way that might surprise you... -Thread☠️ https://t.co/t65A2YOtHX
Sociology of Valentine's Day! A fun thread 🧵
Yes it does, actually. It turns out women are just regular human beings - neither precious idiot children to be pampered, nor flawless angelic beings whose agency is without blemi...
Agreed. This is a wholly new set of structures in the Chinese political and governance system, one of the most consequential since reform and opening potentially. But also think it...
General Pervez Musharaff's granddaughter. Ab bole bhi to kya. https://t.co/bR9OOuKLXJ
