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People choose to consume popular culture, and that means they influence the stuff they’re given, just as the stuff they’re given influences them. It’s a feedback loop. The media undoubtedly affects us, but in much more subtle ways than total indoctrination.

Dead Famous

Greg Jenner

In the interest of space, our focus is on research addressing disparities in morbidity and mortality outcomes, selected because data, at least for mortality, are likely to be available with some degree of historic or even prehistoric depth, while other kinds of data (e.g., acute morbidity or long-term sequelae) may not be as accessible.

Pandemics, past and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies

Jessica Dimka, Taylor P. Van Doren, Heather T. Battles

In 2009, Curtis Yarvin wrote a screed on his blog under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug [praising Thomas Carlyle](https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/07/why-carlyle-matters/), an antebellum pro-slavery writer who penned an infamous essay called “[Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasional_Discourse_on_the_Negro_Question)” which asserts “the Negroes are all very happy and doing well,” in 1849.

The Broligarchy Wants Slavery Back

Jim Stewartson

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