They’re mostly getting dunked on, but they’re wriggling around all over the thread raging about science being made “political.”
In Braiding Sweetgrass the author mentions this Native American tribe where hunting is predominantly done by men but is only taught to boys by grandmothers. They de-masculinise it so that it doesn’t become a toxic competition for male virtues. Instead it’s taught as doing a hard but necessary thing in the context of stewardship and reciprocity for the land. They’re also learning the plants from the predominantly female gatherers since that’s necessary information when you’re away from camp. Segregating information based on sex only makes sense if one side is so disproportionately powerful that they think they can completely subjugate the other. That’s stupid when you have a limited number of hands and a set number of tasks required to survive.
That’s stupid when you have a limited number of hands and a set number of tasks required to survive.
violence, particularly structural violence, where all the power is on one side, creates ignorance. If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.
This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.
This resonates all the way to the USMC where they celebrate the crayon eating meme/joke as a personal identifier.
Unto Others has a section in it that has always stuck with me about division of labor in large groups vs small ones. Members of small groups tend towards being jacks of all trades, and their roles and duties look very similar to one another, and few functional distinctions can be made between them because anyone might have to do anything at any time. Large groups have a lot more specialization of labor within their structure.
It’s not specifically a book about humans, more of a dry text about the evolutionary theories surrounding altruism. Humans demonstrate it well, but it’s a dynamic that other social animals like ants demonstrate too.
Pretty much this. When you’re in a small band or tribe it’s “all hands on deck” all the time. There might be lowered expectations of the young and the old but everyone does something to benefit the group.
“B-b-but it mapped so well onto my assumptions and prejudices! The rigorously collected evidence must be wrong!”Weird how they call for minorities to always be ready to justify not being purged by eugenics at any given moment, but they will demand a world where their worldview is NEVER challenged. It’s correct because they say so, it’s only a wacky coincidence that being “redpilled to the harsh truth” just so happens to say that they are super special and deserve extra privileges in society.
Humanity not try to cull the weak for the good of mankind every two seconds challenge
🎵 For the good of all of us / Except the ones who are dead 🎵
They are deeply emotionally invested in the idea that being aggressive assholes that struggle with basic hygiene expectations is because of some primordial caveman power level and not just them being aggressive assholes that struggle with basic hygiene expectations.
People have never, at any point in human history, been that simple. Just because you don’t have access to transistors or combustion engines or whatever doesn’t mean personalities and interpersonal relations aren’t complex.
um sorry sweaty, humanity went to the moon and discovered pronouns
That’s what 2001: A Space Odyssey is about
i find it very difficult to take a field seriously when the most famous professor in it is lobster man
It’s almost sad to see people get so far in academic careers but still hold onto their biases and prejudices like security blankets. I get it that EVERYONE has sacred cow beliefs, but Jordan Peterson should in theory know better than to let his ideals born out of wishful thinking get in the way of reality.
He suppresses rational thought with cocktails of prescription drugs and red meat
he is not an anthropologisthe loves to say he is while being bigoted tho
He’s not a climatologist either but he regularly states his very learned expert opinion on climate change.
Philosophy too!
i was talking about evo psych
Look I don’t want to be too much of a STEMlord but something you’ll notice about a lot of these supremely cringe evopsych PhDs is that they have quite a bit more time with the psych part and a lot less with the evo part
(Okay maybe there are some cringe as fuck Evo types too but the first people I ever heard laughing in public at Pee Pee Jordanson videos were some evolutionary biology grads so I want to believe they are above this shit)
90% of the pushback i’ve ever seen on evopsych comes from actual biologists and the other 10% came from science communicators who are friends with biologists
For a bad time, look up Dr. Professor Jordan S. Peterson MD. PhD Esquire’s takes on climate change.
The top comment is
More people able to bring back dinner. It makes sense.
And overall people seem to be agreeing with the comment. Dunno if this post was way before that happened or what but it seems to be the opposite what the title says
The next top level comment down from that one is “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, let’s keep believing the old hypothesis anyway” malding lol
It’s been long enough the mods may have cleaned it up, but there was a lot of brainwormed shit downthread. There are some quotes of it elsewhere in this thread.
At this point it’s nothing revolutionary, there are multiple books saying the same. As always indigenous people and hunter gatherers are preferred to be seen as simplistic beings because admitting the opposite would quickly break quite a few narratives.
People are complex beings and always have been, there were many different ways that they formed their societies differing from group to group. Some had equality of genders, some were patriarchal, some matriarchal. It’s intuitive if you don’t believe in those bullshit distinctions in the first place.
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it seems obvious given how unique people are
People are so unique that you still want to pigeonhole them into a pair of preset biotruthy castes.
No I don’t? What are you on about?
Then what were you saying? Take a stand instead of shuffling around holding the goalposts until you appear like the superior one in the room.
Emergent behaviours emerge from simple observations, the existence of exceptions to an observation isn’t a statement about the emergent behaviour of the population
Your straw manning isn’t me moving goalposts, if you feel the need to resort to name calling in a discussion, it’s probably worth taking a step back from the monitor for a few minutes
Emergent behaviours emerge from simple observations
I don’t think it’s possible to deliver that in a more condescending and Reddity way while providing less explanation of where you actually stand.
Your straw manning isn’t me moving goalposts
Your masturbatory sense of inflated self-regard would make you plenty of fairweather friends in a lower division STEM class, but otherwise all I see is a “nuh uh.”
isn’t a statement about the emergent behaviour of the population
All I see is
I believe that FEEEEEMALES statistically select for conveniently helpmeet roles in a way that makes exceptions and different cultures irrelevant because biotruths, and I do it in a plausibly deniable way that doesn’t sound like misogyny, bucko.
it’s probably worth taking a step back from the monitor for a few minutes
You first, and take your fedora with you after tipping it.
Wow. I hope you find whatever you’re searching for in life, it isn’t here
I hope you find whatever you’re searching for in life
Reddit-brained “totally not misogynist, buuuuuuuuuuut” misogynists try to walk away from arguments without smug concern trolling attempts challenge. Difficulty level:
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