When you're waiting for that massive ocean liner to turn around and head in the direction you've been looking at for a long time sometimes you just need to be patient and wait until enough middle level players have had their oxen gored. Of course, that might happen too late.
@slooperbia50068 Whose ox has been gored— I just made it plural
@slooperbia50068 One’s ox being gored=one’s interests being damaged.
@slooperbia50068 I'd have to give that some thought.
@slooperbia50068 I can say that I never find myself using any evolutionary psychology insights even if I've never thought it important to try to refute them either. Genetic changes can't have kept up with economic and social "evolution," so how would on disentangle the human or specific human
@slooperbia50068 types from more contingent institutional arrangements? What are the constants in mate selection, child-rearing, status hierarchies, etc., across hunter-gather, feudal, modern capitalist, imperial monarchical, etc., societies? What does it help us explain that needs explaining?
@slooperbia50068 It seems you get kicked back often enough, though.
@slooperbia50068 Why can't the romantic get a look in? Ritualized mating patterns allow for a play of uncertainty and partial disclosures against a background of shared expectations, allowing for the oscillation between sign and object.