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| 892f69e | The dissociation between fear and aggression is evident in violent psychopaths, who are the antithesis of fearful--both physiologically and subjectively they are less reactive to pain; their amygdalae are relatively unresponsive to typical fear-evoking stimuli and are smaller than normal.34 This fits with the picture of psychopathic violence; it is not done in aroused reaction to provocation. Instead, it is purely instrumental, using others.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 2fe3042 | Testosterone has far less to do with aggression than most assume. Within the normal range, individual differences in testosterone levels don't predict who will be aggressive. Moreover, the more an organism has been aggressive, the less testosterone is needed for further aggression. When testosterone does play a role, it's facilitatory--testosterone does not 'invent' aggression. It makes us more sensitive to triggers of aggression. Also, ris.. | gender hormones men testosterone | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| 286427c | Males who do extreme amounts of exercise, such as professional soccer players and runners who cover more than 40 or 50 miles a week, have less LHRH, LH, and testosterone in their circulation, smaller testes, less functional sperm. They also have higher levels of glucocorticoids in their bloodstreams, even in the absence of stress. (A similar decline in reproductive function is found in men who are addicted to opiate drugs.) | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 9c14984 | Look at systematic patterns of cultural variation as they pertain to the best and worst of our behaviors. Explore how different types of brains produce different culture and different types of culture produce different brains. In other words, how culture and biology coevolve.3 See the role of ecology in shaping culture. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 016b173 | when it comes to empathy and compassion, rich people tend to suck. This has been explored at length in a series of studies by Dacher Keltner of UC Berkeley. Across the socioeconomic spectrum, on the average, the wealthier people are, the less empathy they report for people in distress and the less compassionately they act. Moreover, wealthier people are less adept at recognizing other people's emotions and in experimental settings are greed.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 39d8d7a | You have a powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d898bd5 | sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that life is a series of performances in which we are all continually managing the impression we give other people. | Charles Montgomery | ||
| 8175625 | The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, and to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented, and the characteristic issue, the crucial concern, is whether it will be credited or discredited. | Erving Goffman | ||
| dcacf59 | The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally. | stigma | Erving Goffman | |
| e1eba3e | We have then, a basic social coin. With awe on one side and shame on the other. The audience senses secret mysteries and powers behind the performance, and the performer senses that his chief secrets are petty ones. As countless folktales and initiation rites show, often the real secret behind the mystery is that there really is no mystery; the real problem is to prevent the audience from learning this too. | Erving Goffman | ||
| 0522754 | Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence. | structural-violence stupidity | David Graeber | |
| 54f1dac | A human being unable to have a meaningful impact on the world ceases to exist. | David Graeber | ||
| 09b88aa | Perhaps, but you fail to see the folly of the Reishi," Bragador said. "The concentration of power that allowed them to ensure peace for so long was the very thing that made them such a potent threat to peace when their power corrupted them, as power inevitably does." "So what's the solution?" Alexander asked, a bit more defiantly than he would have liked. "Simple ... humans must learn to live without government," Bragador said. "Government,.. | David A. Wells | ||
| 7a53967 | Sometimes I wonder if the worst crime evil people ever commit is forcing good people to kill them in defense of life and liberty. | David A. Wells | ||
| ce8ff7e | on their target about now. Six on one, overwhelming force, or so they thought. Puller was a first-rate, superbly trained close-quarters fighter. But he was not Superman. This was not a movie where he could Matrix his way to victory. It would be fearful men fighting, making mistakes but certainly landing some blows. Puller tipped the scales at well over two hundred pounds. The men he would be facing tonight collectively weighed about a thous.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 85a6a2a | Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex--woman, that is to say--also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8b2dc56 | but just the very tips of the fingers, here, the most sensitive parts, the parts bathed in warm oil, the whorled pads, I feel them singing with nerves and blood I let them extend... further than the warm silver hip-flask's cap's very top down its broadening cone where to where the threads around the upraised little circular mouth lie hidden while with the other warm singing hand I gently grip the leather holster so I can feel the way the wh.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 3601f72 | Yet for some reason, we as a society have collectively decided it's better to have millions of human beings spending years of their lives pretending to type into spreadsheets or preparing mind maps for PR meetings than freeing them to knit sweaters, play with their dogs, start a garage band, experiment with new recipes, or sit in cafes arguing about politics, and gossiping about their friends' complex polyamorous love affairs. | joy productivity purpose society time-allocation | David Graeber | |
| fff23dd | You will not find your identity in what you have, but in who has you. You will not find your identity in what you do, but in what has been done for you. And you will not find your identity in what you desire, but in who has desired--at infinite cost to Himself--a relationship with you. Christ is your life. He gives you a new identity and will work that new identity out in your life until the day when He appears. On that day you will finally.. | David Lomas | ||
| 69f6c00 | Taut, intelligent, and intense suspense that is deeply human."--Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Gunmetal Gray "Exciting and well-layered....David Bell is a master storyteller with a sure hand at crafting characters you feel for and stories you relish."--Allen Eskens, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Life We Bury "A tense and twisty suspense novel about the dark secrets that lie buried within a community and a father wh.. | book david-bell domestic-suspense fiction novels summer-read suspense thrillers | David J. Bell | |
| 3439631 | Stop looking back at the past, forget what you used to be, let go of what you wanted for your life and embrace what your life is now. | David A. Wells | ||
| ab0f4b9 | At their best, all living religious traditions in some fashion offer a challenge to become aware of what's going on in our minds. They invite us to refuse to settle and to resist the reality-distorting media that perpetuate debilitating forms of self-satisfaction. In this sense, living religious traditions are like arsenals, renewable resources for rethinking our lives in light of the ethical demands of more sacredly conducted living--a way.. | David Dark | ||
| 1f0f938 | him." "Do you have anyone else you're tight with?" asked Julie. "Used to. Not anymore." "Because they're not around anymore?" asked Julie. "Something like that." "Robie really respects you. I can tell." "I would imagine there aren't many who he does respect," replied Reel. "I bet you're the same." "We trained together, Robie and me," said Reel. "He was the best, Julie. I always thought I was, but I have to admit, he's better." "Why?" "The i.. | David Baldacci | ||
| 41f76c2 | I have no explanation for it, except that there are those who are so selfish and so driven by an insatiable lust for power over others that they will commit unspeakable atrocities to gain that power. But they are few. Most people just want to live their lives and love their families and friends. | David A. Wells | ||
| 7c26891 | Early naturalists talked often about "deep time"--the perception they had, contemplating the grandeur of this valley or that rock basin, of the profound slowness of nature. But the perspective changes when history accelerates. What lies in store for us is more like what aboriginal Australians, talking with Victorian anthropologists, called "dreamtime," or "everywhen": the semi-mythical experience of encountering, in the present moment, an o.. | David Wallace-Wells | ||
| b368b70 | I told him he must carry it thus. It was evident the sagacious little creature, having lost its mother, had adopted him for a father. I succeeded, at last, in quietly releasing him, and took the little orphan, which was no bigger than a cat, in my arms, pitying its helplessness. The mother appeared as tall as Fritz. I was reluctant to add another mouth to the number we had to feed; but Fritz earnestly begged to keep it, offering to divide h.. | Johann David Wyss | ||
| be85056 | The typical circumstance of a child when seen in public these days is one of being dragged along by a long arm, while whoever is dragging the child is saying, "Come on, let's go! We don't have any time. We have to get home (or somewhere else). Don't just stand there. Do something." That's the gist of it. But other cultures--many Native American tribes, for example--had an entirely different ideal for education: "A well-educated child ought .. | David Steindl-Rast | ||
| 4483cd5 | You have a right to your life because you are alive. You have a right to your liberty because you have free will. You have a right to your property because it is the product of your labor. You forfeit these rights when you take them from another. | David A. Wells | ||
| 06aa9f3 | One day when Nasruddin was left in charge of the local teahouse, the king and some retainers, who had been hunting nearby, stopped in for breakfast. "Do you have quail eggs?" asked the king. "I'm sure I can find some," answered Nasruddin. The king ordered an omelet of a dozen quail eggs, and Nasruddin hurried out to look for them. After the king and his party had eaten, he charged them a hundred gold pieces. The king was puzzled. "Are quail.. | David Graeber | ||
| f6196f4 | If no one had an army, armies would not be needed. But the same can be said of most lobbyists, PR specialists, telemarketers, and corporate lawyers. Also, like literal goons, they have a largely negative impact on society. I think almost anyone would concur that, were all telemarketers to disappear, the world would be a better place. | David Graeber | ||
| 9d06f09 | Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried. Those who work shit jobs tend to be the object of indignities; they not only work hard but also are held in low esteem for that very reason. But at least they know they're doing something useful. Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated a.. | consumerism inspirational work | David Graeber | |
| 858460d | For all its celebration of markets and individual initiative, this alliance of government and finance often produces results that bear a striking resemblance to the worst excesses of bureaucratization in the former Soviet Union or former colonial backwaters of the Global South. There is a rich anthropological literature, for instance, on the cult of certificates, licenses, and diplomas in the former colonial world. Often the argument is tha.. | David Graeber | ||
| 717933c | While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all. | democracy gandhi political protests resistance violence | David Graeber | |
| 16451c9 | I think right-wing populists hate the `liberal elite` more than economic elites because they've grabbed all the jobs where you get paid to do something that isn't just for the money - the pursuit of art, or truth, or charity", notes David Graeber, an anthropologist whose ideas helped shape the Occupy movement. "All they can do if they want to do something bigger than themselves and still get paid is join the army." | Sarah Kendzior | ||
| 07a0f1c | About the only policies that can't be referred to as "deregulation" are ones that aim to reverse some other policy that has already been labeled "deregulation," which means it's important, in playing the game, to have your policy labeled "deregulation" first." | david graeber | ||
| eeb4e97 | The result often leaves those forced to deal with bureaucratic administration with the impression that they are dealing with people who have for some arbitrary reason decided to put on a set of glasses that only allows them to see only 2 percent of what's in front of them. | bureaucrats | David Graeber | |
| b882bee | The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing duly constituted laws. Laws gain their legitimacy from the Constitution. The Constitution gains its legitimacy from something called 'the people.' But how did 'the people' actually grant legitimacy to the Constitution? As the American and French revolutions make clear: basically, through acts of illegal violence. So what gives the police the rig.. | democracy police politics rights society violence | David Graeber | |
| 0f23521 | So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can be avoided (and therefore, violent mobs legitimately suppressed) if 'the people' are understood to have the right to challenge the laws through nonviolent civil disobedience. | democracy politics protests revolution society | David Graeber | |
| 48d17e1 | Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness. | David Graeber | ||
| 4f27c39 | Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money--or, | David Graeber | ||
| 54f1dc6 | After all, as we're constantly reminded, the Internet has unleashed all sorts of creative vision and collaborative ingenuity. What it has really brought about is a kind of bizarre inversion of ends and means, where creativity is marshaled to the service of administration rather than the other way around. | David Graeber | ||
| 6f184b6 | How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarization of American capitalism itself. In fact, it could well be said that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a giant machine designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. At its root is a veritable obsession on t.. | hope militarization | David Graeber | |
| 27e73f7 | the real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That, | David Graeber | ||
| 4140b0e | Even until quite recently, many of the world's inhabitants were not quite sure of what country they were citizens, or why it should matter. My mother, who was born a Jew in Poland, once told me a joke from her childhood: There was a small town located along the frontier between Russia and Poland; no one was ever quite sure to which it belonged. One day an official treaty was signed and not long after, surveyors arrived to draw a border. Som.. | David Graeber |