Significance

Humans are to a large degree defined by our cultures, which have evolved over long periods of time, and are evolving still.

Original Content

• A Practopian Approach to Gun Issues in the US
• Cultural Evolution
• Developmental Levels
• Evolution and Its Implications
• Developmental Levels as Evolving Social Structures
• An Appreciation for Building a Case for the Detective Story
• Human Nature
• Patterns of Human Cooperation
• Rebuilding Trust in Our Large Institutions
• Religion, Storytelling and Art
• The Systemic Era
• The Progressive Path Forward - A 12-State Strategy
• Understanding Human History
• Cooperation, Competition and Coercion
• Core Design Principles for Teams
• Have We Passed The Point of Maximum Useful Tech?
• Talking Openly about Hierarchy
• A Broadcast Consciousness
• Diving Back Into Our American Muddle
• An Appreciation for Apollo 11 - 2019 film
• Lessons to be Learned from the Fall of Afghanistan
• Life is Complicated
• The Personal vs. The Institutional
• Citizen Kane vs. Citizen Bailey
• Help! Help! The Robots are Coming!
• Can the US Become a Truly Egalitarian Society?
• A Traditional Remedy for the Facebook Problem: Competition
• 8 Big Lessons We Can Learn from the Pandemic
• A Note For Posterity
• An Appreciation for Christmas Must Be Tonight

Quotations

• All the World's Cultures Now Available to Us
• Ancient ethnic sores belching fire
• The Arc of History
• Authentic cultures
• The Awesome Power of Culture
• Belief is the end of Observation
• Between-group selection became the primary evolutionary force
• the biological evolution of Homo sapiens was usurped by socio-cultural evolution
• The brightest goat in the herd
• Changing the World
• Chaos and Mediocrity
• Counter-Culture's own values and aesthetics decayed
• Cultural, as opposed to biological, evolution
• Culture can be either mutualistic or predatory
• Cultures as a kind of mental infection
• The Discomfort of Thought
• Egocentric Existence
• The entire pageant of human history
• The Eternal Struggle for Human Rights
• Evolutionary success and individual suffering
• The Extent of Freedom in All of its Dimensions
• Fear of Missing Out
• The Fragile Constructs of History
• From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural
• The historical trajectory of violence
• History is something very few people have been doing
• Homophobia
• Human imagination more than biological reality
• If the future of humanity is decided in your absence
• I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city
• I must study politics and war
• Inextricably Linked in Freedom
• Institutions must advance and keep pace with the times
• Levels of Development
• Luxuries tend to become necessities
• The Makers of Things
• Man's nature is an open, constantly evolving system
• Merely Thoroughly Outrageous
• Moral Religion
• Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis
• Myths are stronger than anyone could have imagined
• Never Knew Cocaine to Improve Anything
• No single natural way of life for Sapiens
• Only a Human Being
• The only dependable things are humility and looking
• Our long-term personal and societal goals
• Our Social Order Now in a State of Permanent Flux
• Our species does represent a new evolutionary process
• Push Outward
• The Real Problem of Humanity
• Religions are great bushy trees
• Sixties Surpluses of Money and Time
• The system has been shaping and reshaping our minds
• These principles have no objective validity
• This Highest Kind of Religious Feeling
• Those who tolerate or encourage evil
• Thralls to group instincts
• The time-worn yoke of their opinions
• The Toxic Mix of Religion and Tribalism
• An ultracultural species is born
• A vast repository of information learned and passed down from previous generations
• The way the hammer shapes the hand
• We have the capacity to envision a better future and make it a reality
• Why study history?
• You have your position because of the events of history