The Dawn of Everything

Gossip Trap

Fascinating big picture history regarding the rise of civilization beyond Dunbar's Number, and it's proposed current reversion via social media taking us back to clans. https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/the-gossip-trap

• Eleanor Roosevelt -Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
• So then what is civilization? It is a superstructure that levels leveling mechanisms, freeing us from the gossip trap.
• As William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
• MJ comment -The solution for this morasse is the art of possibility. Yes, we have a past. Yes, we have a choice of where to go in the future. Worries about the future are what keeps us stuck in a bucket of crabs. But people love being down in the bucket. They would also love to climb out. Ultimately It's our choice.

Via Helen Dale

• Femininization has consequences- [1]
• In the absence of reality-testing, bullshit wins Davos and the World Economic Forum are, of course, the pinnacle of moral-signalling bullshit -[2]

• Far right backlash via Helen Dale - by a right guy who is scared how far right it will swing [3]
• Gossip at scale [4]