Coming tomorrow: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century.
“We must seek the next frontier: the event horizon, beyond which we cannot see, from which we cannot return, but through which may be our salvation.” huntergatherersguide.com
This book is big and broad and no conversation will tackle all of it. Here are just two that @BretWeinstein and I have had so far, which are now available:
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Respectfully, Secretary Reich, you have drunk the Kool-Aid.
Not that it should matter, but I’m a liberal. And, for 15 years, I was a college professor, an educator. I saw first-hand the damage that Critical Race Theory wrought.
At its founding, CRT was indeed interested in “the role that race has played in American politics, policy, and law.” Now, though? It’s a weaponized bludgeon used to move power from one place to another, without doing anything to change the underlying dynamics that got us here.
CRT sounds honorable and important, but instead of teaching actual history, with a diversity of viewpoints, it shuts down conversation, weakens people by assuring them that their true identity is “victim,” and pits us all against one another. It makes us more tribal.
Dude, please. “GOP supporters believe that rampaging mobs burned and looted major cities”?
I’ve never voted GOP (not that it should matter), and I know—not believe, *know*—that a tiny but rampaging mob continues to do damage in Portland on the regular. [thread 1/11]
Saturday, April 17, downtown PDX. The night before, yahoos set a dumpster & the bathrooms on fire outside the Apple store. Awning is gone, tree is charred.
Burned to the ground? No.
Insane to accommodate this kind of behavior? Yes.
Insane to deny it is happening? Also yes. 2/
New graffiti nearby from the same night. This is the sentiment that you are de facto defending when you claim this isn’t happening, or that all the protest is peaceful, or indeed, that this particular thing has anything to do with protest at all. This is raw, vengeful hate. 3/
Ignorance, arrogance, and the wielding of credentials to shut down discourse: a triple threat.
When these three characteristics show up in one place, I feel a responsibility to at least slow the spread of misinformation. Here we go. [thread 1/26]
We are all ignorant of some things. Ignorance should be forgiven. 2/
Add arrogance and you have a problem brewing: an undeservedly confident tone that spews garbage will be confusing to some people, people who do not deserve to be confused by the ignorant, arrogant person in their feed. 3/
@GodflyThe@JenelopeJohnson@maxrenke@SadLittleKobold I don’t tend to do remedial evolution on Twitter. But since you say you are an evolutionary geneticist, I’ll make an exception. I’ll go slow, since you seem to have missed a lot already. Consider it a public service. [thread 1/14]
@GodflyThe@JenelopeJohnson@maxrenke@SadLittleKobold This is an evolutionary tree. Some branches display parts of history that we never inhabited. One of those branches on this tree, for instance, terminates in the taxon called “orangutan”. We were never orangutans. But we were—and still are—apes. As are orangutans. 2/
@GodflyThe@JenelopeJohnson@maxrenke@SadLittleKobold (Tree thinking—really grasping what phylogenetic trees are conveying, and what they are not—takes some time, but turns out to be necessary if you are to grok lineage level thinking, and macroevolutionary concepts like synapomorphy, homology, monophyly, etc.) 3/