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oof

can we not promote eugenics to the general public please :(

also claimed the world is relatively peaceful & humans aren’t struggling & there are no imminent major political conflicts (as of 2014) which is 1) currently not true & 2) was never true??? like would my classmate from nepal (who told me yest that everyone back home wants to come to america despite our political turmoil) agree with that?? would majority of population outside western europe & north america agree?

absolutely WILD take by the author that social change won’t ever make everyone happy bc everyone’s happiness is dependent on their individual neurochemistry

also made me laugh when he said that married people are usually happier than unmarried, so therefore people who are naturally unhappy are less likely to get married

this book feels like someone is explaining humans to an alien

the chapter on industrialization and the animal industry bruhhhhhh im gna cry

bro went on a tangent ab science funding & how society determines what research gets funded — i was tryna escape from reality don’t remind me (it was v educational for those not in the field but it was just a little too relevant right now lmao)

ok i’m getting a bit pissed bc are the physiologists who may one day defeat death in the room with us? sorry but as far as i’m aware that is NOT within reach for medicine but ok

chapter on religion was so interesting

oh i fear he is cooking with the sex vs gender explanation. CK could never

audiobooking this