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Mobs, messiahs, and markets. / Толпы, спасители и рынки.
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Too big to fail / Слишком большие чтобы обанкротиться
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A critique of impure reason
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It is shame that the world improvers don't set off some signal before they go bad, like a fire that is running out of juice.
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the do-gooders who never catch on, of course, are hopeless from the get-go.
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so, he came to detest other polities, and other races for a perfectly honest and logical reason - they endangered his survival
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Institutions have a way of evolving over time - after a few years, they no longer resemble the originals.
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the constitution is almost exactly the same document with exactly the same words it had when it was written, but the words that used to bind and chaff have been turned into soft elastic.
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the common householder turns away from his humble house and his spouse and begins to think about the fair world beyond his kith, kin, and ken.
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one of the drawbacks of group living was that group identity madw humans rivals of each other
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According to some scientists, larger brains evolved merely to handle the increased dataprocessing needs of large, sophisticated group structures
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A man would not particularly care to pay the ultimate price—giving up his life—to protect his own group, unless he thought it worth protecting.
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he must carry around the biggest, gaudiest, most implausible rack of lies he can carry; he must make a public spectacle of himself
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It had to be superior in some way, or he might just as well transfer his loyalty to the competing group
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No, he must carry around the biggest, gaudiest, most implausible rack of lies he can carry; he must make a public spectacle of himself.
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All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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Because you want as many of your genes floating around the gene pool as possible.
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You might say that a smart woman would see her way through the foolishness of it all and prefer a man with no desire to show off—maybe a good, solid schoolteacher who cares about the environment and drives an old Pinto.
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In order to spread her genes as widely as possible, a woman needs offspring, particularly males, who are high-ranking—that is, those who can carry around gaudy expenses without going broke.
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When it comes down to it, it’s all sex and lies.
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And here seems to be the explanation for why groups take their politics, sports, and cultures so seriously.
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They are useful only as evidence of conspicuous consumption; they wink to the opposite sex that the animal is fit for procreation and game for a little hanky-panky.
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The man tries to deceive the woman about his fitness for procreation, and thewoman tries to detect the deception, while also deceiving him—with makeup and various artifices—about her own attractiveness.
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Happy New Year!
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And what drives the limbic system? Under all the advanced, logical thinking, what is it that makes people happy?
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A SCALAWAG
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Under all the advanced, logical thinking, what is it that makes people happy?
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Wink at a homely girl, perhaps, or curse a bad driver.
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When it comes to resisting the temptations of world improvement, married men, especially those with teenage children, have a great advantage.
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In order to spread her genes as widely as possible, a woman needs offspring, particularly males, who are high-ranking—that is, those who can carry around gaudy expenses without going broke.
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