Daily Archives: July 16, 2021

High Status Tastes

From the new paper “Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes”: Individuals are deemed to be higher status when they have the following characteristics: a high level of childhood exposure to the arts, a graduate degree, one standard … Continue reading

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WP: To Trump’s hardcore supporters, his rallies weren’t politics. They were life.

For some people, Trump is a substitute religion. From the Washington Post: * They were mostly older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands – retired or close to it, estranged … Continue reading

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Seeing Through The BS

A characteristic of people in dissident and conspiracy movements as well as loony bins is that they are convinced that while their lives suck, at least they see through the BS. I know that in the past, the more time … Continue reading

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