war
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On apocalypse-preppers, technology, and oppression.
The plow helped wreck women’s lives … with modern technologies only *slowly* fixing world. Let’s hope we never slide back to plows.
A Brief History of Humankind, agriculture, apocalypse, CUMA Survival School, farming, feminism, Gabriel Tallent, Harari, history, history of technology, How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, hunter-gatherers, inequality, Lewis Dartnell, My Absolute Darling, Nicky Woolf, plough, preppers, Preppers and Survivalists Expo, primates, Sapiens, sexual dimorphism, status of women in agricultural societies, survivalist dating, survivalists, The Knowledge, the plow, the plow and feminism, vegan, war, Yuval Noah Harari
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On fear.
Activating the neurons behind fear makes mammals attack. And 45 campaigned on fear.
amygdala, Chicago, civil war, climate change, climate strife, Clinton, Comoli, Daesh, Donald Trump, fear, Functional mapping of the prosencephalic systems involved in organizing predatory behavior in rats, gene expression, immigrant ban, Integrated Control of Predatory Hunting by the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala, ISIL, ISIS, Ivan de Araujo, Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, laser-activated neurons, Manchurian candidate, mind control, prejudice, refugee ban, Restaurant Depot, retrovirus, Syria, terror, terrorism, terrorists, Trump, violence, violence against conspecifics, voluntary research participation, war, Wenfei Han
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On the origins of war.
Recently someone suggested Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Blood Rites” as a companion piece to read alongside Karen Armstrong’s “Fields of Blood” (see a recent post inspired by the latter here). Which seemed reasonable enough; both works attempt to explain war and where it comes from. And although I hadn’t expected to be overly fond of Armstrong’s work…
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