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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a state stops teaching sociology in schools, what do students lose and what, if anything, do they gain?”
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Left Media Bias bigger than i realized
No matter how you measure (print media, online, page views, paid subscribers, followers, etc) US media leans heavily left, to an extent that surprised me.... - Sara Schultz...
Our Experience of Gender is Caught in a Drama Triangle
My contribution to the #DeepTakes event is an experience I find really alienating and lonely on a personal level and I see it playing out culturally in a way that seems to impact everyone I know (and obviously huge swaths of people I don't).To express what I am seeing in this... The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably via use of the word "optics" ;)
I've been reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged*, of course, at least to start with!). New to the topic, and I’ve never identified as a history buff, but I’m really loving it.... Why having kids is bonkers (if you’re addicted to comfort)
Hot take: If your life is all about chasing pleasure, getting the newest shiny thing, and looking for your next dopamine hit, then yeh – having kids is nuts. They’re messy, noisy, and they’ll likely ruin your dreams of becoming a social media influencer.... Monogamy v polyamory
Is monogamy better? Is poly better? Is there an overall norm for people, with exceptions? Is it totally pluralistic? Here are some points for monogamy, with some counter points, to convey some of my uncertainty but nevertheless leaning into what I’ve chosen: Point: I don’t know a... - annabeth...
Could it be ethically ok to not vote?
note: I posted this two hours before Biden stepped down. It’s possible that a different Dem candidate could change my choices, but my overall perspective feels the same.... Disasters as Political Fodder
Recently, a family member asked me if I knew about the LA fires. I said "yes, it's terrible". And they said "and they've proven that the fires were started by immigrants." I burst out laughing derisively and said "yes, if they'd just shoot all the immigrants, everything would... It feels like not a coincidence that the thread about media bias has by far the most activity. A couple ways I can think to interpret this are: UpTrust is a project that’s quite centrally about addressing this issue as a facet of the bigger problem of global meaning making, and... - annabeth...
There are a few ways I’m orienting to this. For a long time I listened to NPR every day and got huge emotional surges around every new piece of political info. For the past 5-7 years I am either in a correction or overcorrection.... My close friends started a quasi-gang when I was in middle school (roughly 13 years old) after watching a 1981 movie called "The Wave" which was ironically screened in their class to point out how easy it was to lead to Nazism. I haven't seen the movie.... - marcello...
Cities and Ambition
I recently reread this Paul Graham essay [ https://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html ]. It’s about what messages individual places send their inhabitants vis-a-vis which ambitions are good.... - david...
Meaning Crisis, or Meaning of X, or ....
I spoke to a friend this past weekend who recently took the package from a federal agency, and is likely going to have trouble finding new employment.... - RachelMaron...
How do you know who to trust?
I've been actively studying trust for the better part of a decade, but, recently, as I have been digging through the published research, most of the thinking about who to trust becomes a conversation about what to trust.... Reminds me there’s a Michael Meade quote I found recently, "Abuse is the wrong thing done to the wrong person by the wrong person at the wrong time. Regardless how wrong it is, the soul experiences abuse as an initiatory experience.... - annabeth...
Austin is so strange. There’s a kool-aid here that strangely perpetuates until it’s not really a koolaid anymore: be interesting, be friendly, make friends, have fun. I think all the people moving here keeps a constant state of excitement and openness.... Most of us have Community-Neglect
Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child. "Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years." I would argue most of us also... We need new gender categories, while preserving the distinctness of "man" and "woman"
I don’t mind using different pronouns—I’m happy to love someone with whatever language they prefer. But I’d like to propose that deconstructing traditional genders is not only unnecessary, it’s harmful.... New structures for family-friends?
Chatting with a friend recently and came up with this novel idea. Historically, many people would end up married, having kids, and having responsibilities to their family and local community and groups....