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we could literally build this in every American city. buildings that inspire a long view of the future; a long and optimistic view of humanity we are a 250 year old country who should be dreaming for 2500 years





why do women like dancing so much more than men





Actual video and music from the military parade today. This is more degrading for American soldiers than Vietnam POW videos.




What could be more Western than genocide? Who exterminated the Tasmanians? The most successful case of genocide in the West’s many attempts at it? Are we going to pretend that the Nazis were not attempting to replicate the American achievement in clearing land of the natives for homesteaders in Generalplan Ost? More pointedly, genocide and settler colonial population history are the reason for Anglo-Saxon geopolitical supremacy. And the West has a tendency to shrink to the Anglo-Saxons, with the French and the Germans (unless they are the non-West) providing a thin veneer, so that people can pretend it is a European question.






Most Americans have no idea that Osama bin Laden denied any involvement in 9/11, condemned the attacks, and accused Israel of staging them.




The day before yesterday, a social psychologist asked me, in the context of infidelity research: “Why does a man care whether the baby is his? He gets to raise it either way.” Good reminder of why the social sciences need evolutionary theory.















