I'm really glad you focused on the concept of "propriety" because I think propriety is more indicative of so- called "revealed preferences" than a lot of the things we like to say define a culture ("our values," identified religion, etc. )
I also find propriety vis-a-vis revealed preferences fascinating in what society chooses to ignore.
Adultery was on-the-books illegal into this century in places, along with weed and prostitution. They are also tacitly considered "normal" parts of the, landscape.
Prohibition outlawed alcohol with federal penalties; in short order most people ignored illegal consumption.
In Japan, the things you do when you're drunk simply didn't happen, and it's almost reality-busting to reference them.
Violations of the sliding scale from reward to punishment that are simply (consciously) ignored are fascinating, because they speak to some value overriding another: that the guilty party "can't help it," perhaps, or we ourselves are frequently guilty of the same sin and don't want to be judged as fully as as ought to be.
> The fundamental problems of society, particularly the Left, are the result of mental illness that seeks to shape the rest of the world to match itself
Fair point, OK, yes, but please don't lump the realistic left together with the idealistic left. I think you'll find it isn't abortionists, utilitarians, or advocates of legalized psylocybin, prostitution, or euthanasia who are trying to drive us all off of a cliff: https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/ohio-police-fatally-shoot-pregnant
“ Anyone who has worked in a large company has seen this in action, with sales having a very different sense of reality than operations, and HR being basically Cloud Cuckoo Land.”
And then you realize that HR is about 80% of academia without an asshole operations grunt to put the fear of the Lord into them. See also -> Germany
An oldie but related goodie:
https://open.substack.com/pub/guttermouth/p/mom-watch-me-dive?r=awu4c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I'm really glad you focused on the concept of "propriety" because I think propriety is more indicative of so- called "revealed preferences" than a lot of the things we like to say define a culture ("our values," identified religion, etc. )
I also find propriety vis-a-vis revealed preferences fascinating in what society chooses to ignore.
Adultery was on-the-books illegal into this century in places, along with weed and prostitution. They are also tacitly considered "normal" parts of the, landscape.
Prohibition outlawed alcohol with federal penalties; in short order most people ignored illegal consumption.
In Japan, the things you do when you're drunk simply didn't happen, and it's almost reality-busting to reference them.
Violations of the sliding scale from reward to punishment that are simply (consciously) ignored are fascinating, because they speak to some value overriding another: that the guilty party "can't help it," perhaps, or we ourselves are frequently guilty of the same sin and don't want to be judged as fully as as ought to be.
> The fundamental problems of society, particularly the Left, are the result of mental illness that seeks to shape the rest of the world to match itself
Fair point, OK, yes, but please don't lump the realistic left together with the idealistic left. I think you'll find it isn't abortionists, utilitarians, or advocates of legalized psylocybin, prostitution, or euthanasia who are trying to drive us all off of a cliff: https://thingstoread.substack.com/p/ohio-police-fatally-shoot-pregnant
Note 5: In complex systems we use actor
“ Anyone who has worked in a large company has seen this in action, with sales having a very different sense of reality than operations, and HR being basically Cloud Cuckoo Land.”
And then you realize that HR is about 80% of academia without an asshole operations grunt to put the fear of the Lord into them. See also -> Germany
Great stuff. Had me thinking about the recent 'Nazi substack' kerfuffle when referencing the purity spirals.
I also like the suggestion that Doc Hammer played Warhammer (though other tabletop wargames are of course available)