Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Social dominance, marriage and the origin of the state

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Not all early states were autocratic . Pericles, the leader of democratic Athens, revealingly portrayed wearing a military helmet. In 1970, ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Why We Get Sick

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If you only read one book on health and nutrition, make it Why We Get Sick by Dr Benjamin Bikman. Dr Bikman is a research scientist whose w...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

The Class That Cannot See Itself

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The inability to see oneself is a core element of much modern moralising We live in a time of a striking pattern. In many ways, societies ar...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Peers and parents, past and present

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Typically, the child-rearing not done by parents is done by peers. Source . Fatherhood, being (unlike biological paternity) a socially-const...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Left-Hand Path, Right-Hand Path: someone being wrong on the internet

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Good versus evil is not a universal religious or moral framing I have a wide range of interests, many of them historical. One of the YouYube...
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

The US's turn to be hobbled by Leftism?

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Ideologies come and go. It is the social dynamics that matter. Source : In one of his fun and informed alternative history videos, the opera...
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