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Understanding the difference between traditional and modern societies. The defining distinction that many people overlook and what that means for us today.
akhivae
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akhivae
@akhivae
tweets on: anthropology, demography (it's not destiny btw), and current events
Islam has already won. If Westerners peacefully give us back our Holy Land in Palestine, we'll remember you were nice to us in the year 2200.- Most normal people can read the subtext to questions like this.In college I asked a Rwandan if he was Hutu or Tutsi... he glared at me in silence, then solemnly rose from the table and quietly walked out of the room.
- there's nothing simple about any of this tbh
- GenZ leftists are such drama queens. You say something like you can save money by cooking at home and they reply with something like "genuinely disturbing how so many people believe disabled people don't deserve access to quality, nutritious food"
- A lot of men overestimate their desirability. There's also the hypocrisy of it. Looking for a woman who is willing to overlook age, something you yourself refuse to do?Almost every single unmarried 40-year-old man that I know wants to marry a woman aged 28 - 32
- Financial autonomy is far superior to total financial dependence on a husband, parents or in-laws who abuse, mistreat, restrict or neglect you. Women know this because they have all witnessed it within their personal networks. Men are often oblivious to this.Still kinda blows my mind that women fought for the right to experience this
- Basically there's two kinds of leftists... 1. UberEats is a human right 2. Ban all washing machinesI urge degrowth & other climate action researchers to keep in mind that all extraction adds damages to people & ecosystems somewhere, & challenge them to rise above techno-modernist ideology to envision radical alternative ways of organizing our lives & societies. 1/
- Canada has a higher church attendance rate than Russia.This meme illustrates the below
- In my experience, "old school" hobbies (ex. writing, cooking, carpentry, hiking, gardening) are way more common among Milennial men with progressive or left leaning views. With conservative guys the conversations always revolve around crypto, real estate, sports betting etc.
- American anthropologist, Ann Gold, noted in an ethnography of a small town in rural India that one very elderly, illiterate women believed a local Hindu temple was as old as time itself. It was actually just a century old.I wonder what this did to the psyche of the Italians and much of Mediterranean Europe, to live for centuries among the ruins of infrastructure that was impossible to recreate
- Thinking about "tradwife" content on Twitter, I notice two things: 1. It is mostly directed at men not women. Even when officially speaking to women, most engagement is from men. 2. There is no mention of "tradhusbands". Men are absent from any imagery regarding tradwives too.
- Fascism is rising almost nowhere in the West. They want fewer immigrants and an end to post-2010 progressive politics. There's very little desire to invade neighboring nations for lebensraum or start goose-stepping in military parades.I understand that Americans are freaking out and many are thinking about moving out of the States and I would genuinely recommend they do not do that. Fascism is on the rise literally everywhere, esp in Europe. You will not be saved by just moving away.
