“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.” ThinkingWayWellsBookLawCultureIndividualSocialTermTechnologyClearModernElementsMajorsArgumentTreatsVery GoodAgentsConcreteSocial ScienceAutonomousModern CultureScience TechnologyGood Reads Author:Richard R. Nelson
“The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.” DifferentIndividualSportsTeamModernVery GoodAthleteCorporationsDifferent ThingsTeam Work Author:LeBron James
“That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.” ThinkingYoungModernStyleBandGood ThingsVery GoodBritishMixing Author:Mick Jagger
“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.” IfsWorldLooksGovernmentHateDemocracyModernExampleFineVery GoodTurkeysIslamistsMuslim World Author:Yaroslav Trofimov