sociology

  • A Community of Individuals Evolving Towards Efficiency

    …the fact that their own material desire was the only variable in the equation they used to make choices… Continue reading

  • Ice Cream Roulette

    The natural reason why people resist doing the same thing as everyone else. Continue reading

  • Social Sprawl

    Social Sprawl is just like Urban Sprawl, but with social interactions and behaviors.  The desire to spread out socially and continuously make new friends causes sustainable social structures, with their established mores and norms, to be neglected and deteriorate. The… Continue reading

  • The Cycle of Consumer Culture

    The more stuff we have, the harder it is to clean and maintain. The harder it is to clean and maintain, the less we clean and maintain. The less we clean and maintain, the more dirty and dysfunctional it all… Continue reading

  • Manufactured Consent

    ~ “Andrews!! Wait up!” > “What going on?” ~ “I have a question for you… how do we make compliant people accept that it is necessary to force non-compliant people do things against their will.” > “I have no idea… Continue reading

  • Hemingway’s Dance

    Just as a male Manakin woos a mate,Hemingway’s selfish, masculine exuberance was crafted,in its environment, to attract a specific type of woman.A woman who could evoke a particularfrequency of love in him. It was that exact frequency of lovethat fueled… Continue reading