Sociology
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Part 2, Individual Sovereignty in the context of the Social Contract. https://t.co/vs6jAKkvWi
WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT TRENDS? Yesterday I explained how the human brain uses a version of trend trading to make decisions about aesthetic and moral values without bothering to actu...
Total collapse of Roman patrician bloodlines by end of 1stC AD, per the great scholar of Rome, Tenney Frank. A few generations later, even the emperors were no longer of Roman stoc...
There is a corollary between the Social Contract, Individual Sovereignty, and the idea of Sacrifice as it is embodied in our delayed gratification. I haven't seen these three put t...
Back in the 1970s, feminists anthropologists often claimed that small-scale societies were more gender equal, as there were weaker restrictions on sexuality. Actually, they had ex...
Doomers have been wrong for nearly 5000 years https://t.co/grdd8nuBfi
why christianity was victorious, funerary epigraphy edition https://t.co/K5TPiOY1Xz
Like they really think that what **I** am doing is the 2010s era Boomer anti-Islam routine of "le evil taqiyya" and "Islam is a monoculture that has always forced women to wear gar...
Scale is quite valuable, but the costs are usually hidden. Consolidation leads to monoculture, it reduces the stock of unique ferments. Culture, taste, and invention are often bot...
1. Libertarians will never be successful because their ideas are a form of magical thinking. They believe that if we remove all restrictions on people’s lives that society will mag...
Most cultural movements aren’t grass roots—they’re top down. Charlemagne’s cultural rebirth, the “Carolingian renaissance,” proved how real cultural change is planned and execute...
While you were playing your switch on the airplane, I decided to torture myself by watching the interahamwe film “Dear White People” using disposable airline headphones I could bar...
Closed, endogamous communities have a rich history in Southern Asia. Throughout the past millennium, they have been referred to as 'jati' in Sanskrit, 'qaum' in Arabic, 'zat' in Pe...
One of the greatest MYTHS in cultural psychology is collectivists (e.g. Asians) don't compete––they are a kumbaya/harmonious/lovey dovey bunch who prioritize interpersonal relation...
It's interesting how the flag has taken on a life of its own outside America. We debate its meaning here, but outside the US, the meaning is clear. Pictured is Gabriel Doroshin, d...
right which is why fertility is so high in housing abundant tokyo https://t.co/ISxpvExLjN
The reply is serious It's useful to provide arguments and evidence against Jewish conspiracies: exposing fake quotes & pseudohistory; pointing out that trends like waning national...
weird thing i noticed last night at least through the 1980s i can identify songs abt men from the perspective of women where the man being "tough" is cited as a desirable trait e...
@Punished3ntropy The dirty secret was always that Black cultural production was highly dependent on the continued existence of a strong and independent black middle class. The bla...
any current mainstream conversation about our culture is dominated by a particular concept: the unconscious bias. said more philosophically: the unchecked presupposition the idea...
Kenneth Clark lamented that civilization was a fragile thing. He observed three “enemies” that could topple even the mightiest cultures—what are they?🧵 https://t.co/fYfFXHRg3y
I want to share something about an observation I made over the years. In India there are 3 layers of lives. A) Rich young people whose parents, grandparents were rich or at the ver...
@BronskiJoseph Sadly, like everything else, any solution that actually gets implemented will work at the margins It's much easier to just do a blanket ban, whether that's actuall...
A woman wants a man who “just gets it.” In our gay and weak times, men are clueless with women. They will commonly hear women say that they want men who “just get it.” The post wi...
