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Some are surprised that 40% of U.S. women have tattoos. A major social class divide. Very few upper and upper middle class women have them. But just about every working class woman...
Study of 85 German soldiers who refused to execute civilians in WWII. The most common outcome: no penalty at all. None of them received the death penalty. One was temporarily sente...
From "Self-Made Man," a memoir of a woman who lived life disguised as a man for 1 year. The author (Norah Vincent) describes her revelation of what it's like to be a man approachin...
The Barbie speech was a useful glimpse into the self-pitying mindset. https://t.co/rQfaBlGwUx
“Free speech authoritarianism only has one mission – to penalise the most marginalised in society” From the Cambridge student newspaper. The duplicitous people that populate elite...
A brief chronology of the Communist regime’s Cultural Revolution in China May 15, 1966: The communist party circulates a letter from Mao stating that bourgeois control of schools...
From "How The Mind Works": racial profiling is a repugnant practice “not because it is irrational (in the sense of statistically inaccurate) but because it flouts the moral princip...
"think of the most privileged person you have ever seen, and ask if your next political act will be of any threat to him.... A good example of an issue that does not threaten Rich...
Girard's scapegoat mechanism: 1. Mimetic contagion (descent into chaos) 2. Scapegoating (blame, expel or murder a single victim) 3. Deification (victim is deified into a God)...
René Girard on why we are upset (rather than delighted) when someone similar to ourselves achieves high levels of success: https://t.co/sqSbefMla9 https://t.co/50Dd6LqZlH
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René Girard on desires that are directed at things for their own sake (e.g. dating someone because you really do like them), versus desires that are directed at maintaining identit...