> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
>
> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"
+
+> "LMAO", says a member of the Community Team. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the other judge. "I can't–I just gave someone a code of conduct violation for it!"
+>
+> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
+
+> Don't think.
+> If you think, then don't speak.
+> If you think and speak, then don't write.
+> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
+> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
+>
+> —Soviet proverb
+
+https://xkcd.com/1942/
+
+> A woman came up to me and said
+> "I'd like to poison your mind
+> With wrong ideas that appeal to you
+> Though I am not unkind"
+>
+> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
+
+> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim."
+>
+> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan
+
+> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to “change the world.” But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can’t tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all.
+>
+> — https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/11/ur-heard-it-here-first-files/
+
+> Too long I've been afraid of
+> Losing love I guess I've lost
+> Well, if that's love
+> It comes at much too high a cost!
+
+(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
+> Go, Soul, the body’s guest,
+> Upon a thankless arrant:
+> Fear not to touch the best;
+> The truth shall be thy warrant:
+> Go, since I needs must die,
+> And give the world the lie.
+>
+> Say to the court, it glows
+> And shines like rotten wood;
+> Say to the church, it shows
+> What’s good, and doth no good:
+> If church and court reply,
+> Then give them both the lie.
+>
+> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
+
+
+> Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
+>
+> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
+
+
+> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
+>
+> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
+
+
+> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
+> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
+> Like it's a game, like it's a game
+>
+> And now, I am better than win or lose
+> There's a new direction that I like to choose
+> It's called the truth, it's called the truth
+>
+> —"True Kinda Love"
+
+> In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society.
+>
+> —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/)
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