tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post4464366949167552051..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: You know porn when you see it, don't you?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-82271190083731017132014-03-17T20:25:04.099-04:002014-03-17T20:25:04.099-04:00Here is the book I mentioned. The title is 'Th...Here is the book I mentioned. The title is 'The Bubble that Broke the World' and is based on essays published in 1931 and 32 <br /><br />http://mises.org/books/bubbleworld.pdf<br /><br />I recommend it strongly, if not the entire book, definitely the chapter on Germany.Manoj Samantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264467983614167240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-25841792679331063982014-03-17T18:54:07.037-04:002014-03-17T18:54:07.037-04:00I would generally agree about short-term evolution...I would generally agree about short-term evolutionary interpretations. I don't think we can really interpret local, culture-specific patterns in long-term evolutionary ways. Which is not to deny that genes have functions and that traits including behavior are affected by genes and by genetic variation.<br /><br />Your comments on the US today and Germany are beyond what I know about in any detail, so I can't really comment, but clearly through history we know that attitudes and behavior related to sex have changed in major ways and rapidly. So a legitimate challenge is to understand the interaction between evolutionary derived 'drives' and so on, and how culture affects and molds them.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-28048849502853540882014-03-17T14:37:10.079-04:002014-03-17T14:37:10.079-04:00> She is unapologetic about the fact that she d...> She is unapologetic about the fact that she does this to help pay her way through college (here's one of countless stories).<br /><br />The above is another symptom of terminally ill US university system and supports of my prediction of its collapse. <br /><br />http://www.homolog.us/blogs/blog/2014/03/14/columbia-u-fires-senior-faculty-researchers-getting-80-salary-grants/<br /><br />In the past, being trained by college had a bigger purpose of being able to show that a person is educated, scholarly and morally upright by the standards of the society. Now, 'going to the college' itself is considered the achievement, and every way of paying for it is socially acceptable.Manoj Samantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264467983614167240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-69429351344307889512014-03-17T14:29:48.648-04:002014-03-17T14:29:48.648-04:00I usually find these research projects on evolutio...I usually find these research projects on evolutionary biology based on short term social cycle to be statistically poor, because they try to read too much from contemporary social behavior and that too of only a small class of entire human population of the world. If at all, the following cyclical pattern is more noteworthy and may be subjected to investigation.<br /><br />Germany of 1920s was financially bankrupt and was trying to live on Keynesian steroid. I read a book written in 1931 about German economic projects and almost jumped out of chair. Everything written there about Germany sounded very similar to USA of today ("building another bridge in Munich using borrowed money to simply 'stimulate' the economy"). The description was so close that if someone replaced Germany by USA and changed the publication date to 2007, I could not tell.<br /><br />We know a few other things about Germany of 1920s. <br />(i) The country had a glorious century and all Nobel laureates of the day as well as leading thinkers were from Germany.<br /><br />(ii) The country had a 'sexual revolution'. The Institute of Sexual Research (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) was founded in 1919 and one of its major goals was to study homosexuality.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft<br /><br />(iii) The most famous 'book burning' of the Nazis started with the library of this sexual institute. Germans did not protest too much about the book burning, because they did not approve of 'hookup culture' of Weimer era. Then the Nazis expanded the program to burning of all books written by Jews, and finally even called quantum mechanics 'Jewish science' and tried to ostracize Heisenberg by calling him 'white Jew', just because he was a theoretical physicist.<br /><br />I hope you find those patterns more interesting than deriving too much about male-female evolution from limited data of US college kids of 2014.<br /><br /><br />Manoj Samantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264467983614167240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-19509239447248914972014-03-17T08:37:34.235-04:002014-03-17T08:37:34.235-04:00Evolutionary scientists should not become overwrou...Evolutionary scientists should not become overwrought just because someone else seems to be getting way too much sex, When a human being is born into the world, it cannot be foretold whether it will be thrust into a culture of Puritanism, Hook-up sex, Mayan sacrifice, or the Khmer Rouge insanity of the 1970s. Science simply watches calmly to see who emerges with a good size clutch of growing, healthy offspring, and who does not. A thoughtful, safety conscious female who films porn and emerges from college without debt and with her reproductive organs intact has made progress towards that goal. She is at a great advantage compared with a female in similar circumstances who contracts numerous STDs that terminate her fertility during bouts of intercourse when she isn't even fully conscious. However, both lag far behind the more chaste if boring female who does not attend college, marries her sexual partner, works as a cashier, and has two kids by the age of 20. That third female is the one, by virtue of whatever genes, thoughts, traits, and characteristics both malleable and fixed, that allowed her to pass her genes intact through the strange times and culture of the hookup sex generation. Kirk Maxeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11864529687578909475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-5509123929438521602014-03-17T08:20:02.462-04:002014-03-17T08:20:02.462-04:00You certainly raise a valid and complex point. My...You certainly raise a valid and complex point. My thinking was based on how openly our local students write about this and make it seem like what 'everybody' is doing. At least, I think, many are. But I don't know of course in any detail at all.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-47750028896997726252014-03-17T07:40:59.313-04:002014-03-17T07:40:59.313-04:00It's a good point. However, I think it's q...It's a good point. However, I think it's quite possible that people have an inflated or exaggerated view of just how many college students are participating in hook-up culture. Holly Dunsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05260104967932801186noreply@blogger.com