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David Sherry
@davidsherry
When I last searched the name of a real person, a name which only came to me in missing posters and pleas for a safe return, a name which came to exist in my mind that day as a result of something very raw and real and human, I was presented some of the most clinical and fundamentally in-human writing I’ve ever read. The uncanniness and insensitivi... See more
charlie squire • Digital Graveyards
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Philip Davis
philipcdavis.comDavid Amann
@davidamann
How the Nuclear Family Broke Down
youtube.comhis description of humanity in his seminal work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) appears to be as somber as it was prophetic: “Narrow specialists without minds, pleasure seekers without heart; in their conceit, these nullities imagine they have climbed to a level of humanity never before attained.”
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
The second factor that has recentered reproductive labor in the home has been the expansion of “homework,” partly due to the deconcentration of industrial production, partly to the spread of informal work. As David Staples writes in No Place Like Home (2006), far from being an anachronistic form of work, home-based labor has demonstrated to be a lo
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