Category: Articles
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Adults laughing at the stylish teenagers explained by Darwinism
Adults tend to laugh at teenagers as they have their idols, wear distinct clothes, have common musical tastes and influencers attract them. They laugh at teenagers because they are stylish. Not only it is a huge hypocrisy because adults are programmed to such a behavior which possesses evolutionary advantages as well. So does Darwinism explain it all? Development psychology in teenagers. Darwinism at its best Teenagers have…
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The music industry should live on welfare. If morality prevails over money
The music industry in a nutshell: careers are very short; the face wears off; if you don’t adapt to the proper current sound, you will perish. Or you have to have proper contacts so it must be deserved. You have to step aside for your colleague who will release an album as well. And I…
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Self-defending democracy as a curse
In a real democracy, you should be able to implement any ideas your mind comes across. Pursue sensible eugenics, imprison those who refuse education (because otherwise, they will end up in poor socioeconomic situations), and so on. Do you think we are able to do it like this? No, meet the self-defending democracy. Freedom of…
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Some cultures are superior
After the horrible pseudoscientific theories that there is a superior German race which derives its attributes from some non-sense innate features, this doesn’t get much talked about. The difference is with human cultures. And only a few cultures are superior. Not only socioeconomic background shapes the way cultures are made. These are the distinct cultures that make…
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Smart in a broader sense vs. IQ. And the two extremes
I have met tons of people that were intelligent in terms of IQ but they lack something I would call being intelligent in a broader sense. And inversely, I have met tons of people who were smart in a broader sense yet they lacked IQ. And third, which is fortunately the best, are the people…
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…
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Why non-fiction authors are politicians?
When I was younger and even more stupid, I always envisioned my favorite non-fiction authors as moral men, not politicians. But these very authors are politicians to their core as I have found later on. When I started to doubt human morality and realized that current and past human morality makes little sense compared to…
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Dr. Monkey Ph.D.
People eat, sleep, mate, defecate, relax (because you would waste limited energy), cheat on their partners, observe other people to gain knowledge about the hunter-gathering group to increase their evolutionary fitness (who is a strong man, who possesses resources). We are just monkeys. Homo sapiens are also extremely territorial. They compete for everything: sexual partners,…
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The differences between pseudosciences and evolutionary psychology
Some people claim evolutionary psychology is a pseudoscience just like any other. No hard evidence, no core observations, no skeletons we could match with others and no DNA analysis that would tell us more about our prehistoric behavior that actually exists to these days. But putting it on the same level with astrology, creationism, homeopathy,…
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Free will and the wealth of the nations
I am not an Adam Smith and this article about free will and the wealth of nations is definitely not a sequel to his genius book. However, the article plays with the notion that nearly all people believe in free will. However there are major disparities between individual nations and their subsequent wealth. So where…