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Hobbes, founder of the political Right, and Rousseau, founder of the political Left, both built their arguments on the bedrock of prehistory. But on different bedrocks. The lesson being: if you want to change human society, change the past first.

it is unjust to treat unequals equally #merit

Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. There is never just one, the most durable narratives stand up best to fact-checking. They’re the ones that address our deepest needs and desires. #India🇮🇳

My latest piece on Brown Pundits summarizing my political position in 2022. brownpundits.com/2022/10/08/the… omar ali Mukunda Raghavan Śrīkānt Kandāḍai Euclid The Emissary Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱

Real America breaks down the ossified libertarianism of Free America. Just America assails the complacent meritocracy of Smart America - George Packer | The Atlantic #JOURNALISM

Liberals like jokes based in irony and misdirection that end in a surprise punchline, while Conservatives like jokes based on exaggeration and grotesqueries that say what they mean from the beginning and then escalate. Irony and Outrage by Dannagal Young

Srubnaya-Alakul (Timber-grave culture) serves as one of the best sources for Steppe Middle and Late Bronze Age (Steppe MLBA) or Sintashta-Related ancestry in Indians. #indoaryans #steppes #india

You’ve entered the domain of greed when you no longer pursue an endeavor because you’re curious about it. It’s when the coldness of utility replaces the warmth of curiosity. Ambition morphs into greed when you stop listening to your inner compass. #CristianoRonaldo𓃵

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” You have to have your Worlds of Enough extend upward before realizing that this trend needs to be corrected. After all, a minimalist is nothing more than a maximalist recovering from this epiphany. #life

The narrative of a fairy tale princess has a specific arc. It’s about a girl’s transition to womanhood and expresses an transformation. It’s about the girl’s ability to break away from her childhood (usually represented by some kind of clingy mother figure) into her womanhood.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. #secularism #india #family #Men

#US #healthcare

In the past 50years in US education costs have 2x college costs have 10x health insurance costs have 10x subway costs have at least 10x housing costs have increased by ~0.5x US health care costs about 4x as much as equivalent healthcare in other 1st World countries #US

Predictive processing is neuroscience theory of brain function - brain is constantly generating and updating a "mental model" of environment Such a mental model is used to predict input signals from the senses that are then compared with the actual input signals from those senses

# Religion #India