Sociology
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Just me bullshitting, I feel like Japanese internet culture seems the most disconnected from the larger Anglophone quasi-American internet culture. I feel like I can constantly fin...
This explains why white people who actually live in cities are so much more conservative on racial issues than white people who live in 95% white rural counties in northern Georgia...
The world of the late bronze age was the first βglobalizedβ society. But this highly connected network of cultures crumbled into a dark age after a series of disasters. There ar...
What is the liberal or progressive position on the finding of lower levels of social trust in multicultural societies? Like, do they think itβs not a real phenomenon? Do they rejec...
10 concepts (from Ancient Rome) that explain the modern world: 1. The Tacitus Razor: βIf you want to know who controls you, see who youβre not allowed to criticize.β This is how c...
After I published my civilism ideology one-pager, I was asked to publish about it in an online blog. But during writing the article I realized I was not able to answer a very impor...
βCivilizations die from suicide, not by murder,β according to 20th-century historian Arnold Toynbee. He claimed every great culture collapses internally due to a divergence in va...
The university is supposed to solve the perennial question of the American Experiment: How do we get the benefits of an intellectual elite without the drawbacks of a hereditary ari...
So what is SOCIO-AFFECTIVE SUPERIORITY? To play better football because we understand each other better than the opposition. I'll explain how Paco Seirulo developed methods tha...
1. It is our tendency to value the individual over the group, the community. Bonds should be voluntary and free, not involuntary. Yet, those tight knit, suffocating communities a...
What does it mean that culture matters most for fertility? A big part of that is religionβοΈβͺοΈβ‘οΈπ. A review of the literature shows religious attendance & commitment are linked to m...
A NEW MENTAL MODEL MEGATHREAD HAS ARRIVED! In 20 tweets Iβll summarize 20 of the most useful principles I know. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Value: A lifetime. Thread:
𧡠How Civilizations Fall Recently I had the pleasure of reading The Law of Civilization and Decline, by American historian, Brooks Adams.
I can answer this one: itβs because hygiene rituals in many parts of the 3rd world are top-down impositions of caste systems which were introduced by higher elements to ensure some...
Just got done reading it, so hereβs some notes: 1. Black women see black men through a lens of 4 archetypes: Thug Nice Guy Player Combo of all three 2. Black women have a prefe...
The reason it's easier for women to move on quickly from a break up than men is because on the average, a woman gets more approached by the opposite sex than a man. Thus, in a way...
People think that it's a funny radicalism and performative thing, at this point it is too a degree, but in the future with weird changes in culture due to computers and collapse in...
I wonder, I never got the chance to ask anyone of relevant age: If you crossed the bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries (consciously), how long into the following century di...
The Neo-Babylonians invented archaeology, intensifying their engagement with history and reviving ancient institutions. A Babylonian princess established the first museum in histor...
We hear claims of people happily living under Hitler or Franco or some other dictator due to possession by some kind of mass psychosis β all cope & fanfic for Democracy Believers....
1. "There Is No Fixing What Is Wrong." My latest. I make the argument, drawing on both Joseph Tainter and Jacques Ellul, that the problems we face will never be fixed and the co...
The long-term trajectory toward intermarriage is much stronger than people are aware. Intermarriage is correlated with generation, and few reports break this out. These statistics...
Part 3: Sacrifice in the Context of Individual Sovereignty This is the last of this series of threads where I try to tie the Social Contract, Individual Sovereignty. and Sacrifice...
@noltes_pasfyn @UfoHitch I said "if dumb" because there's a fascinating academic literature in Japan about Brazilian immigrants who grow up bilingual but aren't smart enough so end...
