I think I disappoint some people by finding culture & emotions & ideology & perceptions & discourses important & interesting.
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Because the study of these is so often associated with postmodern nonsense & ideological interpretations. They don't have to be.
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Culture & emotions & ideology & perceptions & discourses actually exist. In reality. And we can study the reality of them & affects they had
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I think it's mostly a reaction to the "only culture matters" crowd. Which always puzzled me since culture is a byproduct of our biology
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...and is selected as well. Culture and emotions matters as much as testosterone and the opposable thumb for human history.
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If the need for fairness was not such a basic human emotion, democracy wouldn't work and we would be fine with tyranny.
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And yet this need varies with the age, the sex, the education ans the professional occupation. Humans are weirdos.
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Ludicrous big-brained apes.
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