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Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as ... See more

Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous

Scholars who study social networks have attempted to classify the strata of friendship. “Best,” “close,” “good,” “casual” and “acquaintance” is one taxonomy they use. “Support clique,” “sympathy group,” “friendship group,” “clansmen” and “acquaintances” is another. These scholars have imagined friend networks as a pyramid, with close friends and fa... See more

Lisa Miller • The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’

“Psychology is a theory of human behavior. Philosophy is an ideal of human behavior. History is a record of human behavior.” – Will Durant

Morgan Housel • Makes You Think

They tend to believe, like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, that a society in chaos is the worst possible condition. Conservatives are therefore sensitive to threats to social order,

Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die

California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield

Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

Myth, Mind, and the Screen: Understanding the Heroes of Our Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious

To connect Taylor with Ehrenberg, what modernity considers to be a mental ailment is always connected to its ethic, to its assertion of what is good.

Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life

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Jason Sugg • Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement

nothing was more disturbing to the students as a group than the admittedly provocative suggestion that when they are in a position of formal authority, they have virtually no autonomy. So strong are the forces acting on them to maintain the equilibrium of the social system, they are essentially only puppets on a string.