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#558 - Tim Urban - How To Take Charge Of Your Life's Direction

Modern Wisdom

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Honor Culture, Thin Skin, and Direct Confrontation

The Wild West was very honor culture-ish. You'll see it though in a bar of Boston bar of high schoolers where I used to sometimes be. Someone bumps into you and you just have to fight them. So that's honor culture. And I say it's a remnant because in the US today it's much less common than it used to be. It's been replaced by dignity culture, which is what happens in places where people trust the law.

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