The Charles Krauthammer Of Fictional Detectives!
Rapunzel, Rapunzel
Kinsey is able to jump into her car and travel to distant places in search of clues; I can't do that. I'm not entirely confined to my home - I do get out occasionally - but my physical stamina is so limited that I seldom venture farther than the local library or office supply store. When I go to the hospital for tests, my husband pushes me around in a wheelchair.
But there are fictional detectives more handicapped than I...
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It was a random event of a much less memorable sort that changed the course of my life and led me to become a writer of books and articles about psychology. I had a friend who had a dog she needed to find a home for, and I helped her write an ad for the classified section of her local newspaper. A few months later she needed help rewriting an article that had been turned down by a psychology journal - my friend was an assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers University - and she thought of me. "You have a way with words," she told me. Her opinion was based on the ad I had helped her write, a classified ad about a dog. The shortest writing job I've ever had. It started me on the path that ended up here.
On second thought, perhaps I would have become a writer anyway. At any rate, writing the classified ad was only one link - one zig where I might have zagged - in a long chain of thorns and flowers that may or may not have been random. I probably wouldn't have become a writer if I hadn't been rejected by my peers for a crucial four years of my childhood. Those years as a social outcast turned me into an introvert; previously I had been a boisterous, outgoing child. If my parents had decided to buy a house in some other community, perhaps my schoolmates wouldn't have rejected me. When, after four years, my family moved to a different part of the country, I stopped being an outcast. But by then the link had been forged; my personality had changed.
Personality can change; evidence from large numbers of subjects shows that it can change, to some extent, even in adulthood, if one's circumstances change. But it is considerably more plastic, more flexible, in childhood. Children are adaptable. They adapt to their society, their culture - they become socialized. And they also adapt to their individual circumstances, as I adapted to being a social outcast. (No Two Alike)
Now, How Does This Apply To ME? Well, I Didn't Like To Read And I Didn't Read When I Was In Elementary, Junior High, High School, And College Because I Didn't Know How To Read When I Was In Elementary, Junior High, High School, And College. But Now I've Created Blogs That Are Solely Based On The Passages I've Taken From The Books I've Read. When, Why, And How Did This Transformation Occur? I Think It May Have Begun Around 2003-2004 When I'd Gotten My 2nd DUI And Had My Driving Privileges (License) Revoked, Which Led To My Social Life Taking A Dive, While The Amount Of Alone Time And Reading I Did Increased (I No Longer Had The Freedom And Independence To Go Wherever I Liked, Whenever I Liked, So I Was Home Bound For Large Amounts Of Time, Isolated From Friends, And Turned To Books, Newspapers, And Magazines For Pleasure). This Transformation Accelerated Once I Got My 3rd DUI In 2006 And Was Forced To Do 3 Months In Jail* Where I SPENT The Majority Of Time Reading Whatever I Could Get My Hands On, Including Whatever Was Sent To ME! TO BE CONTINUED...
*I Enjoy Jail Now That I've Become A Reader (Reeder). I Look Forward To Going There (Jail) Because It Gives ME The Peace And Quiet As Well As The Isolation And Seclusion I Need To Do A Lot Of Reading (To Read All Of The Books I'd Like To Read Without Having The Distractions Of The Outside World, The Distractions Of The Outside World That Would Take ME Away** From My Readings!)
Don't devalue yourself in an attempt to show someone how valuable you are.
Girl Fan, This Is My Form Of Costly Signaling! I'm So Certain Of The Superiority Of My Genes And Background That I Can Expound Upon And Endorse Unconventional And Unappealing Beliefs On These Blogs (Atheistic, Sexist, Racist, Classist Beliefs) And Guys Will Still Respect ME And Gals Will Still Want To Have SEX With ME (Like They Always Have)!
The highest level of status signalling is self-handicapping - actions/behaviors/ beliefs that would hurt you if you weren't so high to begin with (like luxury beliefs ). Believing our own BS () makes these signaling tactics more convincing/effective
"In other words, sometimes the strongest signal is refusing to play the signaling game (which itself sends a signal. There’s no escaping signaling)... [but] only if you’re already a highly respected person."
https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1268152876414763009
The swift reversal on social distancing reveals how beliefs work
People tend to evaluate a belief based on 1. the prestige of the speaker expressing it 2. the number of people in their social group expressing it
THIS IS WHY NOBODY TAKES ME OR MY BLOGS SERIOUSLY!
The educated class would never have listened to a word I said or wrote when I was making minimum wage washing dishes or when I was a lowly enlisted recruit. But now that I have a few credentials, they find a new tactic to dismiss. Don’t underestimate them.
THIS IS WHY NOBODY TAKES ME OR MY BLOGS SERIOUSLY!
Reading books > scrolling through social media
Simple minds don't know higher things for entertainment. Higher education makes simple jokes & simple work, simple people unattractive, because only intellectual things stimulate the mind.
This Is What All Of You Look Like To ME When You Play Wit YO Technologies! And Unbeknownst To Most Of You, Your Mind Functions Similarly To The Chimpanzee's! Because We Humans Are Chimpanzees, After All!
Steve Fryer Retweeted Erica Palan
I'M IRRESPONSIBLE, UNACCOUNTABLE, AND UNACCOUNTED FORE, STEVE.
Anyway, Why Do I Title My Blogs With Rap Lyrics And Then Quote Rapper's Lyrics After Excerpting Passages From Academic Books? So That Rappers, Their Fans, And Other Non-Intellectually And Academically Inclined Blacks, Browns, Yellows, Whites, Reds, Etc. Are Lured Into Reading My Blog Posts And To Draw Similarities Between What Rappers Say And What Evolutionary Psychologists Say About Human Nature. In Other Words, To Find Commonality Between Rap Lyrics And Evolutionary Psychology (The Evolutionary Motive Behind Rappers Lyrics)!
WHY IS THERE PORN ON MY LOVE BLOG? SO THAT THERE'S A VISUAL IMAGE OF WHAT I EXCERPT FROM ACADEMIC BOOKS ABOUT SEX AND SEXUAL DEVIANCE.
WHY ARE THERE 2 PORN VIDEOS IN MY 1ST BLOG POST ON MY COLLEGE BLOG? BECAUSE I WANT TO DRAW YOU PEOPLE IN, SO THAT YOU READ THE SCIENCE. AREN'T YOU GETTING IT?
WHY DO I USE MULTIPLE COLORS WHEN WRITING THIS SHIT? I DO IT FOR THE SAME REASONS I STATED ABOVE. THIS SHIT (THIS ACADEMIC SHIT) TO MOST PEOPLE IS BORING, SO TO CAPTURE YOUR ATTENTION AND MAKE IT A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING I ADD COLOR, LYRICS, AND PORN TO IT (THE ACADEMIC SHIT). DON'T YOU GET IT?
I ADD PHOTOS THAT I RANDOMLY COME ACROSS ONLINE OF GIRLS' FACES AND BODIES SO THAT YOU'RE DRAWN TO THE SCIENCE THAT ACCOMPANIES THEIR PHOTOS. NO, I DON'T SMOKE WEED. NO, I DON'T MAKE PORNOGRAPHY OR CONDONE THE MAKING OF IT (I JUST WATCH IT SO THAT I CAN LEARN SEXUAL TECHNIQUE IN CASE I EVER FIND MYSELF ALONE WITH A WOMAN!)
BY THE WAY, THERE'S A REASON THESE BLOGS LOOK ABSURD AND WHY I WRITE SELF-REVEALING, EMBARRASSING THINGS ABOUT MYSELF AND FAMILY AND THAT'S BECAUSE, LIKE A TRAIN WRECK, I DON'T WANT MY VIEWERS TO TAKE THEIR EYES OFF OF THEM (THE BLOGS). IN OTHER WORDS, I'VE PURPOSELY WRITTEN THINGS AND MADE THESE BLOGS LOOK RIDICULOUS TO DRAW MAXIMUM ATTENTION TO THEM (SO THAT YOU CONTINUE TO COME BACK AND RELOAD SPECIFIC BLOGPOSTS). NOW READ THE BLOGPOSTS BENEATH THIS ONE!
Why Do I Add The Email Addresses Of Professors And Researchers To My Yahoo Contact List? So That I'm Reminded To Read Their Books, Dummies!
Beware of the intellectual who has a new book. They will try to apply the book’s ideas to *everything*.
I JUST CHECKED OUT A NEW BOOK!
Will Retweeted Suzana Ilić
I READ A LOT OF BOOKS AND I READ PEOPLES' MINDS.
Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most
Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority
Read 2–3 books on one topic (X), and you're practically an expert
NOW THAT YOU'RE ALL LOOKING AT THIS BLOGPOST LET ME SUPPORT THIS SENTENCE: 'THE MORE OFFSPRING YOU PRODUCE, ESPECIALLY THE MORE VARIED (DIFFERENT MOTHERS IF YOU'RE A MALE, DIFFERENT FATHERS IF YOU'RE A FEMALE) AND THE HIGHER THE GENETIC QUALITY OF THOSE OFFSPRING THE MORE OF A WINNER YOU ARE IN EVOLUTIONS GAME' WITH SCIENCE: What's the payoff for females of mating with more than one male?...there is the prospect of increasing genetic diversity of one's offspring. More different males = a greater variety of sperm = more genetic variety among one's offspring = higher long-term reproductive success if the environment changes in the future. Which, of course, it always does. (Strange Bedfellows)
This is extremely interesting. More genetic variation means more scope for future evolution.
It's true that living things evolve to become better adapted to their environment, but this isn't 'progress'...because environments are always changing
To begin with, many people are defensive and afraid of psychology, explains John Jost. No one wants to sit next to a psychologist on an airplane. And most people are afraid to think about the possibility that their most cherished beliefs might have a psychological basis, rather than simply a basis in fact. And when you mix that knee-jerk defensiveness about psychological introspection with political ideology, it's pretty explosive.
(The Republican Brain)
Why we react to inconvenient truths as if they were personal insults:
As the biologist William Hamilton once remarked, evolutionary thinking about human behavior is not difficult in the way that doing physics is. It does not require highly sophisticated mathematics, elaborate instrumentation, or difficult chains of logic. Viewing human behavior through a Darwinian lens is difficult because it radically undermines cherished illusions about human nature. It leads us to violate mental taboos, to enter no-go areas, to open the book of forbidden knowledge. It is "socially unthinkable," exposing the raw nerves of our relationships with one another and revealing the complex manipulative strategies that oil the wheels of society. Thinking biologically about human nature means dismantling shared illusions. (Why We Lie)
"The desire for truth can clash with other motives...Espousing unpopular views often transforms you into an unpopular person. Few want to be pariahs, so they self-censor...The temptation is to balance being right and being liked"
I WRITE WHATEVER I LIKE (THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH) WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT!
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."
ADIOS! ADIEU! AUFWIEDERSEHEN! GESUNDHEIT! SAYONARA!
Carl T. Bergstrom Retweeted Noah Habe
EATON!
I THINK A LOT OF THE PASSAGES I'VE EXCERPTED FROM POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS ARE TOO COMPLEX FOR THE MAJORITY OF YOU TO TRULY GRASP!I DON'T RESPECT THE SCHOLARSHIP OR CREDENTIALS OF STUDENTS THAT ATTEND RELIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES. WHY? BECAUSE THOSE UNIVERSITIES DON'T OFFER COURSES IN HUMAN EVOLUTION, PRIMATOLOGY, BEHAVIOR GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE, EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, ETC. THAT DISCREDIT RELIGION AND PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A MORE ACCURATE VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN SOCIETY. IN FACT, I LOOK AT THESE SCHOOLS THE SAME WAY I LOOK AT TRADE SCHOOLS OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS - AS MEANS TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT A PROFESSION BY FOCUSING ON A NARROW FIELD (BUSINESS FOR INSTANCE) WITHOUT INTRODUCING THE STUDENTS TO IDEAS THAT HELP THEM MAKE BETTER SENSE OF THEIR LIFE AND THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN.
YES
"Once we decide that the main purpose of college is to obtain a job, we inevitably diminish its other goals. Students come through to get their ticket stamped, not to get a deeper understanding of the world."
17. Bullshit Jobs (actual name):
Most modern jobs are meaningless, with the majority of labor yielding no tangible real-world impact. The aimlessness of work leaves people unfulfilled, and, since one’s job is considered one’s identity, it also costs them their self-worth.
NOW READ ALL OF THE RACIST BULLSHIT BELOW. LOL!
