it continues to the present day - it accelerates with population size
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Replying to @vgr
yeah - sorry I'm still irritated thinking about the tendency to find a particular story about "what made us human"
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Replying to @literalbanana @vgr
even though I have not eradicated it from myself
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That is a weird peeve for you. I'd have expected you to be battling essentializing tendencies instead :D
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Replying to @vgr
the problem is "essentializing" is a close relative of "compression"
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Replying to @literalbanana
This is an example that really annoyed me...in an attempt to compress what 'bindi' signifies, it essentializes it http://www.teenvogue.com/story/coachella-cultural-appropriation …
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Replying to @vgr @literalbanana
Hmm... this might actually be the key reason appropriation politics is an so dangerously ill-conceived
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A sociological cousin of functional fixedness. Just because something has a certain significance in a culture does not mean it is ONLY that
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So starter refactor: just because something evolved to X does not mean X=functional narrativization(X) or that dX/dT==d(f(X))/dT
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