what do you think are most similar in manners and morals across time and geography
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what do you think are most varied in manners and morals across time and geography
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are all of the previously mentioned classes about the same across time and geography when you get to the right level of abstraction for manners and morals
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are the first three groups about the same over time and geography and the character of a society somehow construed is mostly about the moral zeitgeist of its aristocracy and all is downstream of that
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have you ever noticed how stereotypes about like working class people in fairy tales and wiley merchants and viziers and shit and wicked criminals basically map pretty well to contemporary analogous classes self-flanderizations
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are classes all the same over time because the viable behavioral mixed evolutionary strategy is pretty well conserved independent of the technological environment
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Replying to @phil49472744 @eigenrobot
strong recommendhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bourgeois-era/amp/ …
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Replying to @phil49472744
definitely relevant, enjoy the buildup but skeptical of the conclusions thank you!
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curious what specifically you're skeptical of if you don't mind sharing
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Sure! I think this macroeconomic framing is basically antique and badly composed and not a particularly good model for anything really;pic.twitter.com/o07Fvo5jOX
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Replying to @eigenrobot @phil49472744
the long-run dissolution of extended family does seem real but I see this more as a consequence of becoming rich than anything elsepic.twitter.com/a1U2lKXEnL
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Replying to @eigenrobot @phil49472744
the earlier emphasis on mccloskey is good, I like the depiction of the middle class as an institution that had to be developed ecologically over centuries
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