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Simone Collins: Optimized Dating, Parasocial Relationships, and Societal Collapse

From the New World

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The Power of Fear

There's this idea that the people who will create the future or whoever can step out of the Skinner box, right? I think that's the one from Mary Harrington. What's interesting is like this, this is something that shapes the kind of ruling ideologies of the present. The ability to motivate people strongly enough over the baseline of basically material comfort to do something politically is kind of like the shaping factor of ruling ideology. Like you have you have both social justice on the left and you have like MAGA on the right populism.

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