Pro photographer, animal rescue volunteer, Microsoft tech geek 1990-2004. “A no is as good as a yes.”
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Mar 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Shared cultural norms are the way that free societies implement collective benefits via individual choice instead of tyranny.
When a society has broadly shared cultural norms - that evolved to provide the group with benefits that have enabled it to survive over time - then most of those benefits accrue to the society when *most* (but not all) of the individuals follow those norms.
Jan 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
THE story of 2022 will be the public’s total loss of trust in nearly every major institution - government, NGO, mass media, mega-corporation, health care, activism & academia - of this country and the world.
And so it begins… the “preference cascade” is officially underway. I admit that I thought it would take more than 9 days after my tweet for CNN to start acknowledging this loss of trust issue on the air.
You thought the treatment of folks going bare-faced in 2020 was intense? Wait until you see how unvaccinated people still wearing a mask - in good faith and according to CDC guidelines - are ostracized as dangerous pariahs in 2021.
thepostmillennial.com/unvaccinated-s…
