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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"the average audience member of The New York Post sits very close to the party and ideology of the average U.S. adult."

pewresearch.org/journalism/202…
Used to find it odd that anyone considered the NY Post "right-wing" or whatever. Until I observed members of the chattering class describe center-left academics as "right-wing." Then realized the typical member of the educated class is far to the left of the median citizen
Yep the chart shows that WSJ readers are to the left of the average U.S. adult. But their readership is still likely to the right of the typical member of the educated class. Most highly educated people, D or R, are left of the less educated in their party
Anyway, the finding that NY Post readers are politically the closest to the typical American makes it even more fitting that the first thing I ever wrote about luxury beliefs was printed there nypost.com/2019/08/17/lux…

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2 Nov
Echoes research about education, indicating that higher levels of education have zero effect on happiness because educated people's outcomes seldom match their expectations
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The Kim family in Parasite was not poor, but failed middle class. The dad lost $ starting businesses. Son and daughter took uni exam multiple times. It's why they did a bad job folding pizza boxes. Working class would do it fine. Bitter middle class think they're too good for it
This is also why critics adored Parasite. It allowed them to identify with resentful middle class people down on their luck (one of the greatest fears of affluent people; downward mobility) under the guise of feeling sympathy for the poor
My thoughts about Parasite with @RichardHanania here:
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'"I think it’s happening,” said Mr. Ahmed, the Gen Z consultant. “Do I think we control the power? No. But we’re pushing the envelope.” He confirms the laughing-sobbing emoji is dead: 'It’s an ironic thing, it’s kitschy. I would usually just say LOL.'" nytimes.com/2021/10/28/bus…
Good that compared to the past, we confer more esteem and respect to young people. More exhilarating to exist in institutions where people with greater narcissistic, Machiavellian, and psychopathic tendencies hold power. Keeps life interesting.
Young adults are also less kind, generous, and honest than older adults. Good indicator that they should be given more power and esteem.
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14 Oct
"Once we take account of genes...only the education of mothers matters: the association between mother’s education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father’s education and child test scores is insignificant" iza.org/publications/d…
To be clear, this is looking at effects above and beyond the role of genes. There is a genetic effect between father's education and children's test scores. But for genetically unrelated fathers, their education has no significant effect on children's test scores.
In contrast, the education of mothers of genetically unrelated children has a significant effect on children's test scores. Nearly equal to the education of biological mothers. Seemingly a powerful effect of nurture
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Mao enacted a campaign called "Recalling Bitterness" to battle "lukewarm attitudes" about the socialist revolution

The regime forced people into rituals describing how bad life was before they had been "liberated," aim was to reshape memories of the past
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.11…
The communist regime appointed writers and artists to retell stories about class struggle "to suit the needs of different political agendas"

Officials of the state would often manipulate these stories, "there was a gradual blurring of the boundary between history and fiction"
Lin Biao (Minister of Defense) stated that "If the past bitterness is not understood, the present sweetness will be unknown. Some might regard today's sweetness as bitterness." The regime aimed to energize grievances to ensure revolutionary fervor did not die
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To exempt themselves from the demands of adulthood, children of the WASP elite claimed to have "neurasthenia," a "neurotic despair" with symptoms like insomnia, irritability, anxiety, fear of responsibility, lethargy, an inability to make decisions amzn.to/3Dm3Fjx ImageImageImageImage
Theodore Roosevelt suffered from neurasthenia as a young boy, "with the makings of a full-fledged neurotic." He ridiculed the softness of the upper class and overcame his fears by lifting heavy weights, boxing, rowing, mountain climbing, cowboying, and leading men into war Image
Women from rich WASP families were taught at colleges that they had undeserved privilege, and felt a "desperate wish" to atone and "do violence" to themselves to repent. They aimed to blend Christianity with Socialism & "delighted in the vast Russian experiment" in Communism ImageImageImageImage
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