Saturday, September 26, 2020

Trump, like Lincoln, may yet spark a civil war

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Searching through US history for a President like President Donald J. Trump, an obvious comparison is with the first Democrat President and ...
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Imperial ideology: how elite networks push local connections and concerns out of the public space

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Much of what has been going on Western societies is a struggle between the somewhere politics of local connections and the anywhere politic...

There is more to human evolution than African savannahs (and other problems of human nutrition)

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Spread of farming and farmers. Humans, the genus Homo , evolved in Africa. For most of the history of our genus, even for most of the histor...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Capitalism, Socialism and other terms to be avoided

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Capitalism is a term coined, or at least popularised, by the enemies of the system they labelled capitalism . It was understood from the st...
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Single-Spouse Marriage Systems: the elite male problem

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While most human marriages have been one husband, one wife, most human societies have permitted multiple-spouse marriages. Most commonly, th...

Cooperative stability and the evolution of norms

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Groups have been a somewhat vexed issue in evolutionary theory, with group selection , and now multi-level selection , (after the general re...

Big Tech, Big Food Products and Big Education: leveraging our tastes to stress our bodily and social metabolisms to destruction

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We have an epidemic of evolutionary novelty and it is killing us Bret Weinstein Everybody is plugged into an apparatus that is sitting in be...

Health policy and debate misfire: how private corporations, non-profits, medical professionals and government health bureaucracies colonise our ill-health

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We have an epidemic of evolutionary novelty, and it is killing us. Bret Weinstein Health policy is a matter of lively debate in the US, larg...

Voices from the collapse of mainstream media

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The ideas that catch on are the ones that win in narrative warfare. … That rivalrous game-theoretic environment is going to be selecting for...