One way to view world events is through the collapse of general intelligence, which has been ongoing since the 1800’s. The plentitude of the Industrial Revolution meant the wealthy far increased their birth control usage. The rise of the welfare state and feminism selected for lower intelligence and aggressive people. Now the world is exploding…
As children we are dependent on the emotional and material resources of our family to survive. If we challenge, rightly or wrongly, the norms of our family too much, resources can be withdrawn from us and we suffer. We do no develop the way we need to. We enter into adulthood crippled to some extent.…
The most common form of peer pressure we face is to conform, to go with the group’s expectations and behave the way the group expects us to. This is not inherently a bad situation to be in, despite what some people say, and a sign that we’re caught in “groupthink” no matter what. The group…