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16 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
In "The Rules of the Sociological Method" Emile Durkheim suggests if crime were eradicated, people would quickly fill the void with new taboos

People enjoy broadcasting the misbehavior of others. If all behavior is declared to be okay, people will launch new moral crusades Image
During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Tse-tung abolished laws, saying they were relics of "reactionary" styles of thinking

But Communists imprisoned and executed millions of people

They eliminated laws. Yet their thirst for punishment did not cease. It grew. Image
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17 Aug
"Umm this article is from 2015"

"Why are you posting an article from 2011?"

"Lol this was written in 2017"

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"I make sure my mental software programming is always up to date"
Implicit in these comments is the fear of being "out of the loop."

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Freddy says the tagline, “Accutron: It’s not a time piece, it’s a conversation piece.”
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28 Jul
Compared to kids living with their married birth parents, adopted kids are

-Twice as likely to have their parents contacted for schoolwork problems

-3 times more likely to be suspended or expelled from school

-4 times more likely to repeat a grade

ifstudies.org/blog/the-adopt…
I was suspended, didn't do homework, detention, etc. Never had to repeat a grade, but I probably should have given how little effort I put in nypost.com/2020/02/08/how…
"one might expect that adopted children would do well in school...adoptive families tend to be better off financially than other families with children. This is partly due to self-selection and partly to the screening that adoptive parents must go through" ifstudies.org/blog/the-adopt…
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21 Jul
“Beginning in the late sixties, Helmut Kentler, one of the most influential sexologists in Germany, placed neglected children in foster homes run by pedophiles. The experiment was authorized and financially supported by the government.” newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
“Kentler was inspired by the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who had argued that the free flow of sexual energy was essential to building a new kind of society…Kentler came to believe that sexual repression was key to understanding the Fascist consciousness.”
“these foster homes were run by sometimes powerful men who lived alone and who were given this power by academia, research institutions and other pedagogical environments that accepted, supported or even lived out pedophile stances”
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15 Jul
“the disintegration of the Soviet Union was one of the most astonishing events in modern history…The largest and most threatening empire in the world, with 5 million soldiers in Soviet garrisons from Budapest to Vladivostok, fell apart in just 6 years” nytimes.com/2002/01/20/boo…
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9 Jul
Dark personality traits like manipulation, egocentricity, and callousness (for men) increase throughout adolescence, peak in young adulthood, and gradually decline with age

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Young people's behavior is often attributed to moral idealism. Yet younger adults score higher on the Dark Triad than older adults, and appear to be more cynical. Perhaps the actions attributed to moral idealism are instead driven by less pleasant motives
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2 Jul
"there is a hierarchy of classes, and the manners and traditions learned by each class in childhood are not only different but generally persist from birth to death...It is very difficult to escape, culturally, from the class into which you have been born" amzn.to/3qUTdKh
Gatsby: “The only respectable thing about you, old sport, is your money. Your money, that's it. Now I've just as much as you. That means we're equal.”

Tom Buchanan: “No. We were born different from you. It's in our blood. Nothing that you do or dream up will ever change that.”
Pierre Bourdieu posited the concept of “ease.” When you grow up in a social class and come to embody it, you represent its tastes and values so deeply that you exhibit "ease" within it. Impossible to learn as an adult. Bourdieu, like Fitzgerald, says you must be born into it.
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