Really interesting piece of history pertaining to slavery. You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf
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Men are different than women
Imagine if you had the ability to clone adults with technology similar to the Star Trek transporter. If you cloned a desirable women there would be another desirable women. If you cloned a desirable man not so much. This is because you'd have to clone his good job...
The Myth of Disability ‘Sob Stories’
Insightful post on disability: But most people with disabilities will not be remembered by history. They are usually living challenging lives with little to show for it: Unemployment rates are disturbingly high, health care costs are often debilitating, and the...
Brain as Computer Revisited
I think modern psychology has latched on to the brain as computer model of the brain and do their detriment. It's an easy thing to fall into. A computer has an operating system, files, and programs. As long as everyone has the same operating system, programs will...
psychology
If it weren't for psychology America would be much less religious. A lot of the millennials' move away from Christianity can be seen as a result of them being resistant to strains of psychology that worked on the older generation. We are in touch with our thought...
hope is social
One of the things that will offend your therapist is the idea that hope is social. The proof for this is how people draw away from those without hope (that's been the story of almost all my interactions as I have fallen lower and lower in society). The...
numbness and detachment
The events of the last six months have kind of gotten me jammed to silence. Kind of like those old 80's synthesizer keyboards, if you maxed out their polyphony—playing more notes than they could output at a time—you just got silence. I just feel numb and I really...
Privilege and Virtue
The further you are away from privilege the more virtue you have to exhibit to get the same amount of reward of one of privilege. Just image if Trump would have been black and exhibited the same (at least to Christians) immoral behavior. He would not have had a shot...
On Rural White People
I'm the only one I know who predicted Trump could win this thing. I think it might have been because I was his target demographic, a poor white person who lost his livelihood to outsourcing. I was ran out of the suburban area I went to college in due to...
my dad says part 2
One of the things my dad used to say is, "it's only money". Basically we have always been poor (at least for Americans) and so much of what one needs to advance in life requires significant financial outlay. For example going to school to get another degree or even...