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“Sexual selection for the human body was not restricted to sexual ornaments. Once the capacity for sports evolved, sexual choice could favor fit bodies over unfit bodies much more directly.”

Book:The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

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Geoffrey Miller

Geoffrey Miller is a renowned psychologist born in 1965. His research focuses on evolutionary psychology and human behavior, particularly in areas such as sex and marriage, and art and aesthetics. Miller's books, 'The Mating Mind' and 'Spent: The Dark Side of the All-Consuming Economy', have had a significant impact worldwide. more

“In addition to the emotive appeal of its eschatological promise, there was the tremendous attraction of Marxism as a cognitive framework for the interpretation of history and reality. With a largely justified reputation, Marxism functioned as a modern-day theology in the sense that it offered the best of minds a doctrine of very high level of intellectual sophistication with which to grapple, work, and identify.”

Religion Socialism Ideology Communism Marxism Castrismo Chavism Adoctrination

Book:Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the cold. Spokespeople for each marginalized group are regarded as 'owning' its policies, meaning transactivists get to promote gender self-identification without hard questions about how it impacts on everyone else. And as the Left has adopted their creed, it hs descended to depths of science-denialism formerly associated with climate-change and evolution deniers on the Right. Indeed, denying the materiality and immutability of human sex is not merely akin to denying evolution - it is [italicized] denying evolution, since the two sexes are evolved categories, and immutable in all mammals.”

Religion Politics Transgender Trans Science Denial

Book:Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

Source: Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“Those who lack a basic understanding of science will likely drink the kool-aid served by Charlatans and deniers.”

Science Denial

Author:Don Rittner

“Those hippie, potheads over at NASA CLAIM that 2021 was the hottest year on record ... Excuse me, I have to put the cat out (he's on fire again).”