Tag: violence
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My Myth Is Not Your Myth
I’m reading Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols at the same time as another YouTuber. It’s not my first foray into Jung’s thinking; I read through Hall and Nordby’s A Primer of Jungian Psychology while living in a hotel in India, which was almost 7 years ago, but I filled it with notes, mostly stuff…
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Do Linguistic Declensions Influence Pantheons?
I’m reading through some Indian myth right now, and I’m blown away by the number of gods that just represent the sun. There are multiple gods and goddesses representing the earth. There are many war gods (principally Indra, but also Soma). The Indian pantheon has been quoted as numbering the millions, but this probably assumes…
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The Holy War of Modern Synthesis
The mainstream theory of violence, and most of human biology, stems from modern synthesis, which combines Darwinian natural selection with Mendelian genetics, with a dose of Malthusian population theory. One of the main thrusts of modern synthesis was put forward by Ronald A. Fisher in 1930 in a book called The Genetical Theory of Natural…
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Hollywood Heatwave
I’ll try to blog more often, and in shorter format. There’s so much happening right now that I procrastinate on blogging, then I feel like there’s too much to write about, so I don’t write anything. The book (If These Fists Could Talk) is basically done. I’ve blogged constantly about the ROBA Hypothesis; feel free…
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We Are Not Scientists, Only Ideologues
There is no such thing as a mere scientist, or a merely scientific work. We have a myth that “science” and “scientists” operate objectively, but science does not operate, and we are not scientists. We are all operating as ideologues, with lofty ideals. Science is the slag we leave behind. Alchemists sought eternal youth and…
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A Thorndike Approach to the Science of Violence
I just finished Lynn Thorndike’s History of Magic and Experimental Science, an 8-volume series with 5706 pages total (not including indices). I started reading it April 18, 2023 and got through three quarters of it in 8 months. I finished it today August 6, 2024 almost 8 months later. So on average, to finish this…
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A Stuntman’s History of Violence
The city… is the source of violence, or the product of violence? Lewis Mumford’s The City in History says that the city acquired a propensity for a particularly harsh kind of violence with unlimited expansion due to the emergence of kings. Smith’s The Aztecs details the violence of the Aztec Triple Alliance and how it embarked…
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Machines Can’t Be Domesticated
In Lewis Mumford’s Technics and Civilization the author writes that the machine was unique in that it was a human creation that could exist outside our own existence. For a while I thought that machines were simply a subset of language, but it seems there’s a differentiation worth making here. Humans encapsulate recursion into language,…
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Words Are Liminal by Nature
Much of modern science is an attempt to track data points between A and B. These are assigned values, numbers, etc. For example, if you select the color just at the transition between green and light blue you get a hex value of #00BBAA, aka verditer. It would be pointless for most people to know…
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From Violence to Sacrifice to Cooking
Richard Wrangham wrote in Catching Fire that the use of fire is what made us more human, or perhaps “transitioned” us to becoming human. Its ability to shrink the overall size of food and increase calorie density supposedly aided in brain growth. James George Frazer’s compilation of myths of the origins of fire is more…