Colleges Are Not Like, You Know, Awakened Enclave

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i have friends that i've been talking o this about, and like, the perception they get from just reading the atlantic or this bullshed is nothing like how it is on actual college campuses. We're actually, like, live it. You can't tell us that we're living this is hard, lived experience. There are definitely cringible and, you know, like the woke moments, there are examples they can bring that are really just, oh, that's bad. But nothing as bad as as we can no longer wait for the cavalry. That's so we must be the cavalry. It's histrionic. So don't send me those articles, cause i

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.