Troo Mendelson
@truthseeker731
📚 Humanist interested in Economy, Society & History.
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison”
Marx realized his mistake. Come attend the 2nd Libertarian Summit at Mumbai on the 26th of July. @libertypartyind
The most essential stabilizing feature of a society is a status hierarchy that young people—especially young men—can reliably climb by following a clear and pro-social set of rules. 1/
Marriage patterns are very important for civilization. Since the Middle Ages, Europe has followed a distinctive marriage pattern, largely avoiding polygamy and cousin marriage. In the book The WEIRDest People in the World, Harvard professor Joseph Henrich argues that this…
Polygamy is savage and primitive and has always been widely rejected in civilized western society. People on both the right and the left are trying to drag the west into barbarism these days. We must reject it.
When England went through the Industrial Revolution, over time it pulled its neighbors, and then much of the world, along with it into modern prosperity. Innovations from one country help the whole world. This has far greater potential to improve people's lives globally than ie…
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of two black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe. [🎞️ SXS simulation]
Every polygamous society has the same two problems: restless young men without wives or the hope of getting them, and running out of women. The consequences of each respectively are warfare and upheaval as a necessary part of daily life and a downward pressure on the age of…
Polygamy is savage and primitive and has always been widely rejected in civilized western society. People on both the right and the left are trying to drag the west into barbarism these days. We must reject it.
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
🚨 India has ranked 7th amongst 110 countries at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad 2025. 👏
Capitalism, not the state, is what ended child labor in the United States (From “Child Labor in the United States” by Robert Whaples)
There’s a reason that Elite Human Capital is always liberal. Get smart people together, they will be internationalist in their outlook, believe in minority rights, and respect women. Nationalists and trads are always chuds for a reason too. richardhanania.com/p/listen-to-th…