@St_Rev In a sense I appreciate a small dose of that bc modern westerners have the historical memory of a goldfish.
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@St_Rev So it's nice to e.g., see puritan roots in progressivism. But we are not in fact fighting the english civil war.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@simplic10 round IS apple IS red IS communism IS marx IS groucho IS glasses1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@simplic10 It's not that AIACC is cladistic, it's *bad* cladistics. He sacrifices the integrity of his argument to get a trolly punchline.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@St_Rev Another thing he keeps bashing into our heads is how past generations would be shocked by our social/sexual licentiousness.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev But "free love" type memes are common as dirt going back as far as you please, sometimes got power, they're no disease of modernity.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@simplic10 My bullshit master hypothesis is a ton of social disruption in last ~150 years comes down to the marginal value of muscle power.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@simplic10 Marginal value of muscle power/security down, marginal value of opportunity up -> disruption of normative roles, esp. gender.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
@simplic10 Explosion of 'deviance' an epiphenomenon of explosion of productive roles.
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@simplic10 May have negative externalities but it's not 'degeneracy', it's the opposite: complexification.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - 1 more reply
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