baltakatei

you are supposed to socialize with people of your same economic level.

Didn’t Japan have some success in breaking up socioeconomic hierarchies in schools by forcing everyone to wear the same uniforms and take on the same cleaning responsibilities no matter who your parents were? It would be amazing if public schools and secondary educational institutions enforced similar constraints inhibiting social stratification that otherwise limits the candidate pool for leaders to close relatives of the ultra wealthy.

There should be a study where you randomly sample people in every US city and ask them where they would go to casually meet new people if they their monetary budget was 0 USD, 20 USD, or 100 USD and if their time budget was 30 minutes, 2 hours, or 4 hours.

as recently as 3,000 years ago, at the end of the Bronze Age

Oops, guys, I’m full-blooded Navajo and apparently I should have a bicameral mind since my ancestors crossed the Bering Strait land bridge 20,000 years ago into the Americas, becoming a generically isolated population around around 12,000 years ago. Unfortunately, I am an atheist, have a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University, and do not hear voices of deities instructing me what to do. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Reminds me of the quote: “Like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer—it feels so good when you stop.”

It sounds like their intestinal parasites have taken over their executive function like the Last of Us cordyceps fungus.