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The American Mind

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The Importance of Parentless Boys in America

The real crisis of masculinity is a crisis of fatherlessness like there's no separating those two things America leads the world in single parent households yeah i mean isn't that amazing nobody cites that. I've just been reading this this book by Ian McGill Chris called The Matter with Things and it's he's a neuroscientist but he cites a bunch of other you know people from other disciplines. One of the things he talks about is this concept of the science colored glasses that we can’t see or measure in our brain scans because we only know how to establish metrics that test for scientific intelligence. We're conditioned by a hyper-scientistic idea of what counts as success as intelligence as

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