why we should

I often use the term ‘to police’ in regard to our responsibilities in negotiating narcissists in our midst. So here I will attempt to define ‘to police’ in that context. For the longest time policing has been seen as a force, much like the sovereign’s military forces, but directed along interior lines that stratify or grid us, rather than the…

A list of reactions to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at the linkpost Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Today we have: Berkman, John R. “The Evolution of Moral Wisdom: What Some Ethicists Might Learn from Some Evolutionary Anthropologists.” from Evolution of Wisdom: Major and Minor Keys. Notre Dame, Indiana: Center for Theology, Science, and Human…

Part 1: The lawyer and the doctor When I was a younger adult I was very briefly on a team sports club committee. In a mixed gender competition of a sport with a low profile in Australia. The committee were all of a similar age and contained some early career tradcore professionals. Being mixed it was low contact gameplay. Officially…

In the negative gist I riffed on the context for page 212, of the 2017 biography of Mary Douglas, which lists the misunderstandings people have of her work. So here I will try to put down a positve version, if not a definition. It will be based on my reading of her work, which is by no means complete. When…

Part 1 is here. (Or substack) I decided to start here with saying what Mary Douglas’ framework is not, i.e. write a negative gist. There is a helpful page 212 which lists the misunderstandings in Perri 6 and Paul Richards’ 2017 intellectual biography Mary Douglas: Understanding Social Thought and Conflict. This is 4 pages from the end of the book,…

In my late twenties my reading moved to include more non-fiction. By my forties there was very little fiction, even if this is still more than most people read… I read a lot. So before my third decade I would wander the State Library of Tasmania’s reference section and browse and sit and read. Soon I would be expecting babies…