The kings and the queens – and now the rich and famous, the industrial moguls and the tech giants, the CEOs and the hedge fund managers, the models and the stars, the celebrities and the influencers, the heroes and the enemies, etc. – are the present-day, in-person and on-the-horizon, real and relatable gods and goddesses … More How culture works

It’s all Neanderthal. ***** Men, I mean – for me, white European and Euro/Ural-Altaic men, and the cultures we’ve extracted and extruded. Primitive. (With a lot of subsequent Medieval thrown in, and Scandinavian, of course; also primitive, in their different ways.) For Asian men it’s perhaps the inheritance from the Denisovans … also progenitors of … More It’s all Neanderthal

NEANDERTHAL

Neanderthal.

It feels like that’s one of the places we in my family come from – both from Mom’s actual inheritance, and Fred’s frontier intellectual-socialist leanings, coming of age in the ‘50s

Having enough materially to begin to care about the gens, the people, the populace, the population – a sincere passion for the public good A village patriarch mentality – grown from the country folk mentality before it Not for power, but from loyalty, devotion, passion, creativity – A real orientation toward the public good And … More Geniality is a really important foundational cultural state –